The latest news about Meta’s Twitter is, that the company is not interested to use its platform just to put on breaking news, world events, and angry tweets only. It has a lot more to do, Threads app is designed for friendly social gatherings, daily gossip, chit-chat, sports activities. Above all that should be in a soft tone, in short, a neutral place to sign up or log in and connect.
Description given now for Threads is the same that was given for Facebook. That it is a large, welcoming, unbiased platform where people can “connect”. This concept took us to fantasies that this platform is just for men and women. To attract and to make love and to get closer, like love birds from all around the world. However, despite claiming to be neutral, Facebook has consistently encouraged specific types of content and behavior, pushing its users further into the world that reinforces their existing beliefs. This practice creates polarization and extremism that greatly impacts today’s global politics.
Mosseri (Former head of Facebook’s News Feed and currently Instagram head, currently active Threads representative) replies to Alex Health from The Verge’s, shows that they learn from the wrong lessons;
Applications are designed for business, it never the case that efforts wasted for the apps that gives no return. Instagram and Threads are the best-designed apps with strong algorithms that get intact regular users with brands, promoting commercial interactions at every opportunity. Apps cannot be solely meant for business and trade only. Throughout history, desirably or undesirably apps have also been crucial hubs of culture and platforms for political discussions and these cannot be avoided.
