Product managers, do you know how you get to 100 million users in 5 days for your MVP product?
By cutting features and only doing the barest minimum but make those features excellent.
@carnage4life And start with over a billion accounts already connected... it isn't a normal launch or sign up that others can just copy. It is impressive that it doesn't sound like it is crashing at all though.
@carnage4life I’m curious as to what those excellent features actually are.
My friends who are on Threads report that their experience is quite a bit less than satisfactory. Primarily this is due to them seeing very few posts by people that actually follow, and lots of posts from “influencers“ that they do not.
@carnage4life It helps to have north of 80 million YEARNING to break free, to go to something less disreputable...
@carnage4life and having Meta's budget and reach you know like buying celebrities
Part of the reason that people that compete against Meta so often get smoked, is that their dislike for all things Meta clouds their judgement, making them incapable of seeing or acknowledging the things that Meta is extremely good at.
"Oh, they just copied from Twitter!" or "Oh, they just moved their other customers over!" is a remarkably shallow analysis of what they just did.
Even now, there are people reading what I just wrote, and interpreting it as some kind of glowing endorsement of Meta's business priorities. 
Or they're getting ready to rage type some exaggerated nonsense at me about how big an impact Cambridge Analytica had on getting Trump elected. (The impact was tiny).
That type of myopia makes it really difficult to learn from people and organizations that you don't like. Which is a significant weakness.
@mekkaokereke @carnage4life elections are won and lost at the margins
@mekkaokereke @carnage4life "oh, they just copied Twitter and brought over their existing user base!" Yeah, which is *literally all that Twitter users wanted:* a familiar UX and the network effect.
@carnage4life and.....the market was ripe for anything resembling something good.....
@carnage4life @lisamelton by having an existing 2.35bn user base to lean on?
@carnage4life this is not a lesson the Threads launch has taught.
@carnage4life and have a huge audience to promote to
@carnage4life network effect using other highly popular networks as springboard. Not that launching it right now was not a good call from the production team. Not gonna even check it out, but that is worth pointing out.
@carnage4life and pushing your MVP to your user base of 2.3 billion users.