PlayStation and Other Gaming Titans Flock to Twitter Rival Threads

Great job Elon, managed to destroy a company in just a few months.

Time to go from one social media app filled with the dregs of society, to another social media app filled in the future with the dregs of society.

Moving from Elmo to Zuck doesn’t seem worth the effort to me. I did make an account on Spoutible before it launched but that guy seems just as much of a shmuck as the rest of them. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Tbh I have had zero issues with Twitter since Elon took over.

App runs fine for me.

Nothing with happen with Threads cause companies will lose far to much traffic for cutting Twitter usage.

Hopefully the tech titans decentralize their social media apps enough where they all eventually disappear.

You won't see me moving over. I don't touch anything that garbage Meta makes.

Interesting how standing up for free speech is controversial these days. I don't agree with everything Musk does, but ripping a massive platform away from digital tyranny, I'll applaud.

Before some of you get your knickers in a twist, I don't condone bullying. That includes racist remarks as well as shouting down and forcing ideologies on the masses. When something like hate speech isn't given a proper definition and commonly used words (and pronouns) can be flipped on a dime to become hate speech on some random person's whim... that's tyranny... leaving the masses in fear that they may say something wrong. It comes with real world consequences like losing your job because you disagree with someone on the internet. That's Marxism for you though.

Pretty normal, companies will go to every social media site to spread their reach.

@johncalmc We haven't gotten to that point. Zuckerberg is just a different option and frankly, is only a good option if you prefer governments (they're hand in hand with tech) telling you what you can say.

@Uncharted2007 What a profoundly hyperbolic response. It seems like a smart move to look at alternatives to Twitter regardless of political bent, simply because it doesn't work as well as it used to. The funny part is, it's gone from a public company beholden to shareholders to a company run by a not-so-random person's whims.

@Uncharted2007 Elon Musk has limited much of what can be said on twitter though lol. Sure it was a cesspool before, but don’t fall for his lies. Hell, now you can’t even view a Twitter thread unless you have a Twitter profile.

My cousin’s wife is an outspoken anti-racism advocate. She’s a white woman and now it goes almost unchecked when she gets called “n-word lover”. That’s the free speech Elon wants to protect?

As I stated previously. Twitter was bad before Elon. And the overtly left-wing suppression campaigns weren’t great. But he’s essentially quelled one voice to promote the opposing voice. That makes no sense at all!

"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"

@Uncharted2007 you've ignored @EVIL-C point completely, though. Pasting over the fact your first comment could also apply to Musk.

I don't care either way, it's all just idiots shouting at each other. But at least address the part where you say new twitter allows free speech, when it clearly doesn't, it's just more in tune with your own views now

@johncalmc My thoughts exactly. Going from one terrible social media company to another terrible social media company is not really a good option.

Unfortunately, it’s only the big players like them that will have any chance of launching a successful platform.

I still don’t regret my decision to stay away from all of it. I deactivated my Facebook account a few years ago (I never fully deleted it because family and friends still use Messenger to communicate). I made a Twitter account many years ago, only to delete it a couple of weeks later, when spambots started to post ads from my account.

I would hate to be a company or person that needs to use social media to promote themselves.

@Ravix The post was deleted but thank you, I appreciate it.

Someone has to stand up and point out the ridiculous behaviors and hypocracy of Musk, and those labeling everything "Marxism" when that stems purely from an economic political theory; it's just spreading more disinformation and nonsense.

Despite all the problems of Twitter's previous management, at least it was publicly traded, now it's literally just 1 billionaires tyrannical fantasy come true. It's even less Democratic than it was, but that irony is lost on certain people in this thread.

I couldn't care less where Sony etc are. It's just really annoying that for a time you needed a Twitter account to get help.

@Impossibilium All very valid points. These days I just use Muskrat Central to follow gaming deals. My FB account is still open, but I never post anything and rarely check it after realizing that it's just a giant waste of time and I don't care about who went on vacation to wherever with their spouse, or where someone went for lunch. 🤦‍♂️

@BeerIsAwesome Back in my day we just called it "AOL".

After the recent Twitter update that limits the amount of post you can view a day the platform has become worthless to me. Hoping Elon gets bored one day and just sells it to someone more competent.

I also think switching to this new platform from Zuck would be like leaving the mouth of a Lion to instead go in the mouth of a Tiger.

@Korgon well said

Going from one narcissistic billionaire to another, lol

Nah, twitter is more fun after elon acquisition, before that twitter is just miserable and I don't even want to touch that website. Also community notes on twitter are hilarious

My prediction is people that don't like twitter will all be going to Threads, and goes back to twitter after realizing most people still on twitter.

Update: Already heard people getting banned on thread because of posting meme, yup thread is just old twitter v1 where disagree mean ban. There's no way thread will win agains twitter.

Who cares. Vast majority will stay on Twitter.
Elon is king. He has improved Twitter like nobody could have done. Haters gonna hate just as potato gonna potate.

@KaijuKaiser how is it destroyed? it has the most interaction ever
oh, right, the usual "I say blahblah what i heard somewhere" blahblah internet thing

I remember when Musk bought Twitter and everyone went to Hive, thinking it was the "real replacement for Twitter"

I made an account on there and haven't opened it since. Unless Twitter completely shuts down, it'll never go away. It's become too much of a staple on the internet, similar to Facebook and YouTube.

I hope eventually our main forms of social media can be on open source non profit platforms. Twitter, Reddit, and YouTube have cemented the fact that social media needs to be kept out of big corporates hands.

Only time I used twitter was to get alerts on PS5 stock back in January 2021 when it was a little rough finding one lol. Less than a week later I got it, and it was good 😇

Threads is an unfortunate name for me, I associate the word with a scary old film about nuclear war lol.

Like a few others have mentioned, I dropped nearly all forms of social media several years ago. Partly for my own health reasons, but mostly because of the toxicity I continued to see fester in every platform under the sun.

I don't know how everything will turn out in the coming years, whether social media will continue to ingrain itself in society or be eventually cast off like a terrible fad at the dawn of the age of information. But I'm find keeping up with news through sites such as this, with extremely limited interaction between the peanut gallery and the reporter.

And honestly, my free time has never been more abundant since dropping that incessant need to refresh an app or two.

@Uncharted2007 I wholeheartedly agree with free-speech and that twitter loved to censor certain groups more than others in a very biased and unfair manner.
What I don't agree is putting Elon on a pedestal as a paragon of free speech is a fallacy.
He censored the Turkish people before the election he helped the Indian government quiet some people and there are more examples that I can't remember right now.
I'm all for free speech, Elon Musk definitely isn't.

@Pat_trick You must have missed the part where I put, "I don't agree with everything Musk does."

To put it plainly, it was obvious no one else had a care in the world to uphold free speech for conservatives... and no... a majority of conservatives don't care if actual racists get moderated for being racist. It was EVERY platform deleting and censoring conservative thoughts and arguments from their platforms ensuring only one side was heard so that's what people thought everyone agreed with. It was the overreach of governments colluding with tech companies to "Other" a specific group.

Frankly, no one else had the care, ability, or both to stop them. So yeah, I'll high five Musk for ripping Twitter away from the real fascists.

Most people leaving Twitter will probably be back after a while. Remember those other "exoduses" to different platforms? Mastodon? Minds? Gab?

Not for me. This comment section is about as far as I go for “social media.”

@uncharted2007 everyone is in favor of free speech when it’s their side that is given more of a voice. Elon is just going in the opposite direction and boosting pieces of crap like libs of tik tok and Matt Walsh. He’s already censored people who work for him that have spoken negatively about work conditions. He’s free speech for some but not for all

Fair play to the author of this article, he knew exactly what he was doing 😂. Turning a complete non story "companies use different social media platforms" into an all out comment war, Impressive stuff 👏

@KaijuKaiser "Pieces of crap" because they shine the spotlight on the subversion, perversion and indoctrination that are posted with pride by the original individuals themselves? They're simply providing more reach for those individuals than they expected. You should be thanking them.

@KaijuKaiser Let's just say based on his egomaniacal 2am Wyle.E.Coyote "super genius" moments which currently seems to be skipping bills to Google & whilst excuse making & limiting accessibility for the once standard "free" accounts whilst spamming with ads & bots I wouldn't set foot near one of his rockets!🤯 Though would be happy if he took one to Mars!😂

Much like Facebook,Google,Amazon & Microsoft right now in its FTC "battle" wherein the Judge's son works for Microsoft,big corporations being in the control of so few is as much of the problem these days!😕

I'm not that surprised corporations like Sony are eager to setup Plan B's on places like this "Threads"...whether i can be bothered setting up FB/Insta etc.,is another matter...all of a sudden some of my old forum hangouts like EAB suddenly look a tad less crazy!!🤪😂

@Browny your comment should have all the likes. We should all spend less time on social media yelling past each other and more time doing literally anything else.

@AdamNovice second this haha. MySpace was so simple. Where is Tom when you need him.

"MySpace Angle" will always be a term for selfies I find hilarious.

@Uncharted2007 Adults can do whatever they want to their bodies. Don’t care how people identify. I’m pro freedom. It’s their life

@koverby This website is social media…… it’s not just as popular as Twitter. Anyone complaining is a hypocrite

@NEStalgia I am old enough to remember the days when we used to go round eachother's houses and talk to eachother. And now I have turned to dust. 👴

Also, these comments have turned into somewhat of a ****show...

@BeerIsAwesome I miss when there were two internets. IRC, BBS, and the occasional Angelfish page for sane nerds to talk about sane nerd things, and AOL for the brainless normies that infect the real world but somehow usually make more money. It kept them isolated in their cell of mindlessness. Then "internet 2.0" happened, "social media" took what was AOL and made it even more mainstream, and....here we are. A picture of a blue bird leads to a wall of...well...twitter-like...er....conversation.....

Could be worse. Could be an article about Xbox.

Oh, let's all flock to that social media platform where people who I don't agree with are censored. Yay!

@KaijuKaiser if you say so. First time I've wanted to use it in years has been since Elon took over. If you want to jump on the same trash service twitter has been prior to Elon Musk, then by all means Orwellian shill, hop on the Facebook bandwagon and use threads.

@BeerIsAwesome your choice is dregs or distopian orwellian future.

@Uncharted2007 Ya I'll be stick to Musk on this one. Not a huge fan of his, but he at least understands the value of free speech. I can't say the same for Meta. Just like selling our freedoms away just as we got them back. Questionable logic of people just blows my mind.

@KaijuKaiser

"everyone is in favor of free speech when it’s their side that is given more of a voice."

Yes we have a name for those kinds of people in the US. Democrats.

" Elon is just going in the opposite direction and boosting pieces of crap like libs of tik tok and Matt Walsh."

Did you ever consider that your tunnel vision that lead you to think those two camps were PoC might have had something to do with the censorship you allowed for years? Matt Walsh makes good points, so does libs of tic tok. I mean unless you think AOC was right and that its ok to have crack in the white house, then I don't know what to tell ya man. You're on the wrong side of history with your perspective.

"He’s already censored people who work for him that have spoken negatively about work conditions."

We can walk through those cases if you'd like. Information is publicaly available as to why those people were "censored". Unfortunately thats Twitter. Not the public square. Though those same people made the argument that "its a company they can do what they want", I feel like its those same people now eating crow after years of pursicution through banning and digital oppression finally catching up with them.

"He’s free speech for some but not for all" by your own statements free speech for customers of his platform, but not with regards to his own company. That's fair so long as the rest of us in the town square can call a dog a dog without it being called disinformation and suddenly getting baned because someone in the US executive branch decides to have a tempertantrum over a private phone call. If that is the price, then its a very small price to pay for us in the public space.

I find your logic lacking priority and over flowing with disengenious positions. Your upset that the shackles are removed from those who never deserved them in the first place. Not becuase any actual wrong doing was done under Elon's reign.

@NEStalgia The irony of the internet is that it was far more "policed" when it was completely lawless and self-regulated. The unicorns of Tumblr stayed mostly in Tumblr, the scum and villainy stayed mostly isolated to 4chan and it's derivatives, and porn. Lots and lots of porn. Then Tumblr got nerfed, 4chan got mainstream, all the old-timey adult sites don't exist any more, and HTML5 killed half the Flash games on the internet.

I did the ridiculous thing of popping on over to PureXbox's comments sections. Nice enough people if you don't mention PlayStation. We shall just ignore the guy over there who called Jim Ryan Hitler earlier today...

@NotSoCryptic Yay, two awful choices! Although it probably shouldn't surprise you to guess that I don't have a Twitter, and my Facebook hasn't been touched in about 3 years. 🙃

I once said I didn't see the point of Twitter. Then I joined, and 14 years later I'm still there.

I don't use it as much as I once did, but that usage decline has nothing to do with Musk... it started before him, a few years ago when the whole atmosphere began to change, the mobs began to form, and anyone without the "correct" attitude started to get hounded. And I don't make any comment about what the "correct" attitude is, because people on all sides harass those they believe to be "wrong". I just do my best to stay away from it.

So my social media usage dropped significantly. I deleted my Facebook account in June last year, though I still have my Instagram account for now. I didn't move to Mastodon, I won't be moving to Bluesky, and the absolute last thing I want is another Zuckerberg/Meta/Facebook app; I only keep WhatsApp because some friends refuse to move to Telegram, but that may well go soon.

So I'll stay on Twitter, where I've had no issues at all yet. If it dies, so be it. But I doubt that it will.

@Uncharted2007 uhm... that's not Marxism by any stretch of the word

@BeerIsAwesome It's amazing what happens when the masses of the whole world are grouped into one of 5 different corporate rooms to all talk at each other and only one can be right. I would never have guessed things would go badly.

Remember when the internet was decentralized, P2P, client-server communication, the stronger, more robust version of networking? And then somehow we went back to mainframes we call "cloud", declared it better, and when Amazon or Level 3 hiccups the entire network goes down. PROGRESS! If the people that built "web 2.0" designed skyscrapers they'd be 3 mile long single story buildings below sea level.

"We shall just ignore the guy over there who called Jim Ryan Hitler earlier today..."

Might have been me, can't remember.

@NEStalgia The problem with that, however, is that it didn't make certain people a lot of money. I guess that's what it all boils down to in the end, as cynical as that sounds.

@BeerIsAwesome You're certainly not wrong, though in this case I think money was just a side effect. The real aim was control. It's the evolution of every 20th century totalitarians visions. Yet chosen by the public!

Day one censorship. Dead on arrival.

@Uncharted2007 Elon banned those who are critical of him from Twitter. If that wasn’t the most anti free speech action of all time I don’t know what his. Alternatively he did them a favor by throwing them off the sinking ship that is Twitter so maybe he was looking our for them after all

Social media, where everybody got to speak to the world, and promptly found out that the world disagreed with them.

Logged in to laugh at the guy that thinks neoliberalism is Marxism but also fascism 😆

The only thing twitter has ever been good for is getting a refund from ***** companies that won’t respond to email. I miss MySpace and OG Gaia. The internet isn’t even fun to use anymore despite our complete dependence on it.

I'm not a fan of Facebook, so I'll avoid. If it was a new independent company, then maybe I'd consider it.

Twitter will always be number one in this particular social media genre. Elon has definitely made mistakes since the purchase. But the previous regimes suppression of certain political viewpoints was absolutely scandalous. Anyone championing moving to a new app started by Mark Zuckerberg of all people are fools though. Meta is a horrible company at the pinnacle of big tech. Look for a political lean on threads coming very soon. Fingers crossed Sony just continue to mirror posts on both so I can remain on Twitter.

The deep state is afraid of Twitter. There is an election next year and it's difficult to supress information (Hunter Biden's laptop for example) when you have the digital town square becoming more free speech focused. You'll start to see mainstream media referring to Threads all the time and will no longer talk about twitter to try an influence a sheep-like brainwashed audience. Elon is about to sue Meta, but these things take time and woud not be resolved before the next US election.

@KaijuKaiser yea sure but you know exactly what I meant anyway…

Well hasn't this article brought all of the absolute fannies

@Kidfried Isn't it lovely to see people openly admit they are fine with the concept of "free speech" that has resulted in more racists and hate speech increasing on the platform with little to no consequences for them? Not to mention Elon forcing his ideologies that dismiss and further encourage discriminating marginalized groups when he's not making himself seem even more incompetent.

This is definitely one of the first times in a good decade where many options of a social platform are up again in Myspace/Bebo/Facebook/etc. competing days. I'd rather not move to Threads with the lack of a PC web browser option and the data sharing so this'll be some shopping. I merely used Twitter to like images and follow news feeds.