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Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?

I've gone off Instagram recently, because it won't list in chronological order. Exemplified by a message I saw on Monday morning "Here's a banging mix for your Friday night" (it was 3 days old). That's the last thing I want to be reminded of on Monday morning. I get announcements for events that have happened. It's become useless (to me).

Apart from watching pandas looking like they're drunk, obvs.
 
BassJunkie said:
I've gone off Instagram recently, because it won't list in chronological order. Exemplified by a message I saw on Monday morning "Here's a banging mix for your Friday night" (it was 3 days old). That's the last thing I want to be reminded of on Monday morning. I get announcements for events that have happened. It's become useless (to me).

Apart from watching pandas looking like they're drunk, obvs.
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If you add accounts to your favourites, you can change the timeline to show favourites only, in chronological order.

Bit of a faff, but it does work for making sure you don't miss stuff you care about.
 
strung out said:
If you add accounts to your favourites, you can change the timeline to show favourites only, in chronological order.

Bit of a faff, but it does work for making sure you don't miss stuff you care about.
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Elucidate please.
 
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strung out said:
This is for Instagram, rather than Threads, which I haven't checked out yet, but you can add an account to your favourites, and then in the top left corner of your feed, there's an option to change it to Favourites, which will only show you your favourite accounts (maximum of 50 accounts).

More info here: Control Your Instagram Feed with Favorites and Following | Instagram Blog
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Ah right. For the moment I think I'll just hurl the odd post into the void and wait and see what happens.
 
strung out said:
If you add accounts to your favourites, you can change the timeline to show favourites only, in chronological order.

Bit of a faff, but it does work for making sure you don't miss stuff you care about.
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Thanks for this. I'll give it a go.

I'm glad I didn't create a massive rant, when it's probably my own ineptitude :)
 
strung out said:
This is for Instagram, rather than Threads, which I haven't checked out yet, but you can add an account to your favourites, and then in the top left corner of your feed, there's an option to change it to Favourites, which will only show you your favourite accounts (maximum of 50 accounts).

More info here: Control Your Instagram Feed with Favorites and Following | Instagram Blog
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I don't see anything like that in Threads (to be fair I didn't know it existed in Instagram and now I know about it I'm not impressed). It's just a big Instagram style mashup of posts from whenever.

Also it seems you have to manually confirm (some) follower requests which is irritating.
 
Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, the news outlet Semafor reported on Thursday.

In a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg published by Semafor, a lawyer for Twitter said the company “has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.

The Threads logo on a smartphone screen.
Threads: how do I sign up and is it any different to Twitter?
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“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Alex Spiro wrote in the letter.

Representatives for Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.

Meta on Wednesday launched its rival to Twitter in 100 countries. According to the company, the app had garnered 30m sign-ups less than 24 hours after launching.

More details soon …
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Musk is pissing and moaning and making legal threats because Meta employed a lot of former Twitter staff to help them get Threads up and running. Now I wonder how Meta was suddenly able to find lots of ex-Twitter employees that were available and looking for work. Whose fault might that have been?
 
Dogsauce said:
Musk is pissing and moaning and making legal threats because Meta employed a lot of former Twitter staff to help them get Threads up and running. Now I wonder how Meta was suddenly able to find lots of ex-Twitter employees that were available and looking for work. Whose fault might that have been?
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"You can't employ the techs I sacked" is amazing logic though innit.
 
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a_chap said:
Is Threads a mobile-only app? I can't find a Windows version.
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I assumed it would be threads.com, but that is taken by a workplace "productivity app" like Slack, which could easily be mistaken for a social media platform. Bet they have a few very confused new subscribers.
 
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