Overall I hope that it doesn't take off lol. It feels like text-based instagram, with none of the advantages and all of the disadvantages. The lack of a linear feed, and the fact the only people on it and getting pushed right now are like the media 'influencers', just makes it all a bit urgh to me.

- It doesn't really have the other types of ways of seeing tweets, like a trending tab, a news tab, or custom feeds, like you might see in Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky

- I have absolutely zero idea what the feed is supposed to be. It's not a linear feed (otherwise I'd just be seeing Zuck threads). I can't seem to change it to a linear feed, so it just kinda sucks.
- In fact I do know what the feed is. It's just like an insta feed lol. And I hate that.

- Seemed slow but to be expected on the first day lol
- Seems there is ability to post images, gifs, and videos. Doesn't look like it has DMs? (I guess insta has them though!)

- This has made me realise that 'Threads' is a terrible and confusing name, as on twitter you have 'Tweets' and 'Tweet Threads'. On threads a 'thread' refers to a singular post, but also a plural (so referring to multiple posts). This means a thread is a thread thread.

- 500 is a weird limit as a 500 character post is oddly long, to the point where they might as well not have one. It's also weird considering the thread creator is made to post, you know, threads. It's optimised to make multiple posts at once with self-replies

- Too many corpos! It seems the only thing being pushed so far are the big 'influencer' types rather than normal humans
- I had trouble reaching the character limit at first. So I tried posting the entire bee movie script and it went way over. Managed to work out the limit is 500 characters.

- Because of this, couldn't really find people I wanted to follow so far (besides zucc ofc). It's an unfair criticism when the app is an hour old 😅, but I find it hard imagining a lot of people in my twitter follows just moving over to threads, (while many of them did in fact make bluesky accounts).

- It kinda made me realise how different my instagram follows are to my twitter follows. On twitter I follow mostly politics journalists, small content creators, news, etc. On Instagram my follows are mostly just friends.

Personally for me it's the custom feeds! Rather than just the linear feed + the ambiguous "For You" feed, anyone can make a custom feed of posts, and you can just add it to your home so you only need to see the types of posts you want!