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Another feature that could spark more discussions: Instagram’s network isn’t starting from scratch. It will build on the company’s own network yes. But over time, Threads will also let you follow discussions on Mastodon and potentially other services that adopt ActivityPub. Tumblr and WordPress, which share a parent company, have both said they will support publishing on the protocol. In a year or two, then, you might read WordPress blog posts in Threads — or read Threads posts in your favorite Mastodon client. It’s an almost unthinkable reversal from Meta’s extremely lucrative walled-garden strategy, which it has employed for its entire history as a company. But Mosseri told me that decentralization is the future of social networks — even if it means that someday a disgruntled Threads user will be able to take the following they build in the app to another network, never to return. “There definitely are trade offs,” Mosseri said. “You're giving up some control. But there are benefits. I do think over time, it's going to be a more compelling value proposition that other apps are going to offer. And I think that should attract more creative talent over the long run.”

— Casey Newton, in a Platformer piece discussing Instagram’s new Twitter clone, quoting their chief Adam Mosseri

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Threads ahora tiene 275 millones de usuarios activos mensuales

La red social de Meta, Threads, tiene ahora 275 millones de usuarios activos mensuales (MAU), dijo la compañía el domingo. “Ayer superamos los 275 millones de usuarios activos mensuales en @Threads. Muchas gracias a todos los que nos han ayudado a llegar hasta aquí. Hay mucho más por hacer y muchas cosas que arreglar, pero hay algo emocionante en este lugar”. dicho Adam Mosseri, el ejecutivo de…

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الفرق بين المجتمعات الرقمية وبين حسابات الشبكات الاجتماعية

ما هذه المجموعة من المختارات تسألني؟ إنّها عددٌ من أعداد نشرة “صيد الشابكة” اِعرف أكثر عن النشرة هنا: ما هي نشرة “صيد الشابكة” ما مصادرها، وما غرضها؛ وما معنى الشابكة أصلًا؟! 🎣🌐 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #84 بالشراكة مع ميكو أفرغ بريدك الوارد! جمعة مباركة؛ والسلام عليكم؛ 🎣🌐 صيد الشابكة العدد #84🧐 الفرق بين المجتمعات الرقمية وبين حسابات الشبكات الاجتماعية🔗 طالع عن المجتمعات في مدونتي 👇🏼✨ مُبشِّر🧠🥫…

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Threads Is Finally Getting a Web Browser

Image: Adrian Tusar (Shutterstock) As the cold war between Elon Musk’s Twitter (recently rebranded as X) and Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads rages on, the latter is preparing to launch a new offensive. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced that Threads was finally getting a bona fide browser version. Nobody’s Really Watching Reels Mosseri announced the new version of Threads in an update on his…

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Threads vs Twitter: Why is Instagram taking on Elon Musk? Adam Mosseri reveals the truth

The timing of the launch of Threads could not be any better. On Saturday, Elon Musk announced the decision to put a rate limit on the number of tweets viewed by users per day – something that has been seemingly revoked in a hurry. The decision, which was taken temporarily to curb “extreme data scrapping”, was met with an uproar, and the days following saw a big spike in incoming users on…

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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah | Movie Review

The acting in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is solid but the character's behavior is cringe #Netflixfilm #MovieAdaptation #AdamSandler #MovieReview #Netflix

Premise: Stacy Friedman and Lydia Rodriguez Katz are best friends who have always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs, but things start to go comically awry when a popular boy named Andy Goldfarb and middle school drama threaten their friendship and their rite of passage. Review: I liked the trailer up until I saw the names of the actresses and then I felt weird. This is basically a nepo…

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Conheça alternativas semelhantes ao X 1.2 - Edição Ao Vivo on-line

Edson Jesus – A.I. Carr. 2024 set 04 Palavras Perdidas: Roubo de identidade: Yael Cohen Aris, As pessoas estão trocando o Twitter pelo Koo, Elon e vacas, James Cameron afirma que a Skynet destruiria a humanidade apenas com deepfakes, Internet morta: é MUITO PIOR do que vc pensa, Os idiomas que sobreviveram ao colapso das civilizações, Elon Musk acaba de comprar o Twitter e others tecs, COMO O…

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i would fight adam mosseri on sight and i would probably win. he has generated too much anger within me, it fuels me and makes me unstoppable

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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023) Review

Stacy and Lydia are BFFs and have been planning amazing Bat Mitzvah’s for many years, however when middle school drama and obviously a popular boy comes between them it is a recipe for disaster! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading Untitled

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Threads está probando la vista "tendencias actuales" en Japón

Después de implementar la función de temas de tendencia en los EE. UU. a principios de este año, Threads ahora está probando la función en Japón. “Mucha gente fuera de EE. UU. ha estado pidiendo la función “Tendencias actuales” y estamos trabajando para llevarla a más países. Esta semana, comenzaremos a probar la función en Japón con un pequeño número de personas para empezar”, dijo Adam Mosseri,…

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While much of the blame for the state of Instagram and Facebook can be laid at the feet of Mark Zuckerberg, it’s important to understand the sheer damage that Adam Mosseri has done to the world. Instagram is now a truly awful product, beset with scammy advertising and an aggressive algorithm that deprives the user of industry, and Mosseri’s only response to the pain and frustration of his users is to tell them that he intends to make Instagram even worse in the future.

Managing Up

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Threads, Meta's new social media app, has signed up 100 million new users less than a week since its launch last Wednesday, making it the fastest-growing app in history.

Like other social media apps, users probably barely scanned ��� or skipped − the terms and conditions for what information Threads can collect, share and sell about them.

Meta probably already had a lot of information about users because Threads is built upon its Instagram platform.

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So how much does Threads already know about you, and what can it do with that data? Here are a few reasons to be concerned about your privacy.

What information does Threads collect?

Social media platforms monetize user data by selling relevant ads based on your location and activity, but, along with the usual app privacy requests like browsing history and location data, Threads also asks for financial information, health and fitness data, diagnostics and a nefarious-sounding "sensitive info."

Many users have voiced concern over Threads for its 14-point list of data permissions you're granting Meta to use the app. Twitter, by comparison, has 10 of these.

"I would say it's at the outer boundaries of what's usually expected, which is to be expected from its connection to Facebook, a brand long known for being especially hungry to take in user data and commercialize it in different ways," says Dan Ackerman, the new editor-in-chief at Gizmodo, a leading technology, science and culture news publication.

Android users can toggle off some of the data requests from the app, while the Apple App Store is "more take-it-or-leave it," Ackerman said.

"It also doesn't help that there's no browser-based fully functional version of Threads right now, and so you have to use the app version," he said.

Meta declined my request for comment and clarification.

Is Threads data collection worse than Twitter?

It's not necessarily malicious, suggests Tim Bajarin, a veteran technology analyst and Chairman of the San Jose, California-based market research firm Creative Strategies. "Users should know this Threads data list is pulled directly from Instagram, and it's all tied to their advertising engine when they start to monetize Threads.  

"When you sign off on financial info, for example, they're not looking at your bank statements or anything," Bajarin said.

Rather, Threads collects what you're posting about and liking, where you are, and whether you bought something through a third-party site, app or game you logged into using your connected Facebook/Instagram ID (usually to avoid creating a new password altogether).

Bajarin said users are granting Meta access for future advertising.

"Meta isn't giving you a free app out of the goodness of their heart − they're there to make money, which is mostly from advertising."

Threads can collect and save this information, and the data can also be shared with third-party services that connect to your Threads profile.

Can you deactivate Threads?

Yes, but you cannot delete it without also deleting Instagram, Bajarin said.

"Meta built (Threads) on the Instagram infrastructure, on top of the program itself, and so it would be very difficult to uninstall one and not both – at least the way it's engineered today. ... They could eventually be spun out to be completely separate apps," Bajarin said.

To deactivate (but not delete) your Threads account, Adam Mosseri − the Instagram boss who now spearheads the Threads app – says you can choose to hide your Threads profile and content, delete individual Threads posts and set your profile to private, as reported by USA TODAY contributor Jennifer Jolly.

"Threads is powered by Instagram, so right now it's just one account, but we're looking into a way to delete your Threads account separately,” he posted.

Ackerman said the fact Threads is built on Instagram is actually a boon for Meta and users, "as it's especially easy to sign up for, has no wait list, and is simple to use." But "in order to delete your Threads account after you sign up, you’ll need to delete your Instagram account, as well, which reminds me of the difficulty people had deleting their Facebook accounts in the past, and how there was a lot of fine print about what data Facebook would keep unless you jumped through extra hoops."

Is the Threads app safe?

Threads is asking for more permissions than Twitter, so it boils down to your comfort level.

Though some of the privacy permissions seem ludicrous – granting Threads access to health and activity data and other "sensitive info" on a smartphone just seems wrong – no one is forcing users to install and use Threads or any other social media app that monetizes its free platform by delivering personalized, contextual ads to you.

Threads is available in more than 100 countries, but perhaps it's no surprise it isn't available in the Europe Union just yet: Meta was forced to pay more than $400 million by EU regulators for forcing users to accept targeted ads.

Personally, I am using and enjoying Threads quite a bit but wish there was more clarity about how my data is collected and used. And I'm disappointed Meta declined to clarify things.

I select "Ask not to track" on all iPhone apps to reduce an app's visibility into my web browsing activity, and I have a virtual private network (VPN) on my computer for extra privacy, but perhaps it's true there is nothing truly free in this world – it's just up to each person to decide whether the cost is worth it.

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Instagram Algorithm 2024

Like any other algorithm, Instagram has the same set of rules that are responsible for ranking the particular content on the platform, for instance, which post and reel should be shown to other Instagram users in the home feed or the explore page.

How does it work?

It looks at the information regarding the content and finds out from the behavior of the users what they are searching for or what they like to see, so according to their interests, it will arrange the content for the right people.

The goal of this algorithm is simply to provide a smooth user experience in terms of content. According to Adam Mosseri, the CEO of Instagram, this is a ranking that gives favor to some posts more than others.

“I know a lot of you are skeptical of ranking,” said Mosseri in a reel way back in 2022, “but it does help us make sure that Instagram is more valuable to every person who uses the platform.”

Mosseri also said that “Instagram doesn’t have a singular algorithm that oversees what people do and don’t see on the app.”

Along with that, they are using a variety of algorithms, classifiers, and processes tailor-made specifically to watch each part of the app, such as posts, reels, searches, and more.

2024 algorithm mechanism

For Feed:

Interest: This includes analyzing the historical data of your search intent and past behavior with similar content.

Post Popularity: Check the analysis of the content and how it has responded in the past.

Poster Information: mining down the historical data, finding the content post frequency, and more.

Interaction History: Seeking the historical data of the user to see how you like the other user’s content and with what frequency.

For Stories:

User engagement: It will understand how much you engage with a particular account’s stories, including the DMs.

Viewing history: It analyzes the number of views on an account’s stories to prioritize those so that you don’t miss any updates.

Closeness: This will analyze your overall relationship with the author and how likely you are to be connected as friends or family.

For Reel:

User activity: It will mine down your past activities and behavior in terms of reels you have liked, saved, re-shared, commented on, and ultimately engaged with.

Author interaction: It will detect the interaction with the person who posted the reel before, which tells the algorithm about your level of interest in that particular content.

Reel information: This will analyze the nature and context of the reel to make it ready for the desired user.

Poster information: It is again similar to the feed and stories algorithm that will detect the relationship with the poster to find how relevant it is for you.

For the Explore Page:

Post information: This will look for the most popular post along with the interaction ratio within the particular period. “These signals matter much more in Explore than they do in Feed or Stories.”

Your activity in Explore: In this section, it will monitor and see the historical data of a particular user about their search, watch, or any other action on the post types or categories.

Interaction history: Basically, you will see your past interactions on the posts, the user profiles you visited, or any other interactions.

Information about the poster: This section will look at which posters have recently gained popularity among people. This helps the explore page boost the best content to reflect it on the user’s explore page.

Overall ranking factors

Relationship between the creator and the viewer: This is very useful for businesses that are seeking active community management, including responding to DMs and comments that can improve the brand’s visibility on Instagram.

Interest: What are the user interests? How do they react to the particular post type?

Relevancy: Nowadays, there is more focus on content relevancy; it should be relevant to the user’s intent.

Changes in the 2024 algorithm

The use of Instagram makes it popular among most of the young generation but also among the elder generation because of the content they deliver with accuracy, so in the same way, it is important to make sure the application runs perfectly and, most importantly, the security for the users.

Restricted contents:

With this new update, Instagram automatically places teens in the most restricted control settings. Concerning this, Instagram will provide a safer environment for the new teens to browse the content safely.

The new reels are less focused on reels:

Last year, the algorithm was more focused on reels. Adam Mosseri said on IG Live that the Instagram algorithm is shifting to give more weight to other types of content, such as stories and regular posts.

This change comes after feedback from users who felt that their feeds were becoming too saturated with reels.

Replayed now counts:

Previously, the algorithm was focused on the only first-time views that were counted as the reel’s view count, but in the latest algorithm, it has been changed so that every time you watch a reel, it will be counted as the view.

Reels with word marks are raked lower:

Reels with word marks will be ranked lower. Including the TikTok logo as well as watermarks from video editing platforms.

Mosseri did say that videos created outside of the Instagram app that don’t have a word are not affected.

European users can now see chronological feeds:

In response to the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), Instagram has announced that people from Europe can have the option to see the posts, stories, and reels from the people that they follow, which will be ranked in chronological order from newest to oldest.

This feature will also apply to search results, which will no longer be personalized based on a user’s previous activities and interests.

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