Message for Elon

Is there room for a new social media platform? Sure there is, but it has to work. Currently, successful platforms are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. Even LinkedIn has over 900 million users and nobody knows what it does.

Is Tribel working out? I’m using it to post my cartoons, but I don’t hang out there, so I don’t know. I do get some reactions to my cartoons but I always forget to read them. I have a Post account but honestly, I haven’t even looked at that since before I went to Miami. I’m not on Mastodon because it’s way too confusing. No, thank you. How about Truth Social? It sucks, is a place for goons, and recently banned me which it says it never does.

So, is Meta’s newest platform, Threads, a threat to Twitter? No, even though it has Elon shitting himself at the moment. Threads may work out and become huge. It already has over 30 million users and it just started two days ago.

I’m on Threads. I feel like I need to join almost every platform to expose my work, build an audience, and also to know what I’m talking about when I cover it. It’s the main reason I joined Truth Social, just to understand it. So when I say Truth Social sucks, I am speaking from experience. I am not leaving Twitter. The way I see it, I spent too many years building an audience there. Mark Hamill just started following me. A lot of readers only find me on Twitter. Plus, I was there long before Elon bought and I’ll be damned if I allow a pasty ghost-face pissant like Elon Musk chase me away from Twitter. I will also continue to comment about Twitter, so shouldn’t I stay on the platform to know what I’m talking about?

The reason Threads has so many users already is that the audience was already built in. Threads add accounts from Instagram, which is part of Meta and has over two billion users. So when you sign up, it’s extremely easy. If you have an Instagram account, download Threads on your phone or tablet, it will recognize you and give you an account. Then you just add a profile photo, write a short bio and you’re done.

And so far, I’ve only used Threads like I’m using Tribel, Reddit, Pinterest, and the way I used Truth Social, just to share my cartoons and videos. I don’t hang out or spend any time there. But with Threads, maybe I will eventually. It’s a very smooth platform and it’s almost exactly like Twitter. Where Truth Social initially made users wait weeks before they could create their accounts, which Blue Sky is also doing (WFT?), Threads gets you up and running immediately. And easy is what a platform has to be to be successful. Have you interacted with people on social media? If you have, then you know that most of them are morons. But I don’t think Threads is a threat to Twitter.

The greatest threat to turning Twitter into a MySpace is Elon. Elon is destroying Twitter. He’s allowing goons to post misinformation. He’s restructured the algorithms so the first posts you see are from Trump goons. He’s charging for verification and I’m seeing a lot of verified accounts with followers in the single digits. Ad sales have dropped on Twitter. I can tell you that my engagements have been cut in half. And, Elon has reduced the value of Twitter and is now only worth 33 percent of what Elon paid for it. Even the $10 I put into Bitcoin is doing better (currently at $9.73. Fuckers).

Some friends have asked me if they should sign up for Threads and I tell them, “Do what you want.” Just don’t piss on it this early when you don’t know what you’re talking about. The best reason not to join is because you’re tired of keeping up with so many platforms. Personally, I do wish a few would die. When Truth Social banned me, I was elated that there was one less chore for me each day, which was uploading my cartoons to it. Threads fucked that up. But, posting to Threads is a lot quicker and simpler than posting to Truth Social.

Do you want me to comment on the Elon/Zuckerberg feud? That’s coming.

Now, comment away and tell me that you’re not going to join Threads. I don’t care.

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