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chancery wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 2:19 pm

neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 1:56 pm

chancery wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 1:38 pm What does this mean? Threads has access to the contacts app on my phone? Or just that Threads knows with whom I interact while using Threads?

Data that "threads" steals from your phone:

Health & Fitness
Financial Info
Contact Info
User Content
Browsing History
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Purchases
Location
Contacts
Search History
Identifiers
Sensitive Info
Other Data

I don't think that this really answers the question.

People refer to "Instagram contacts," for instance, which aren't necessarily the same as the information on the iphone/Mac contacts app. On an iPhone, for instance, you can manage which apps can access your contacts app. My seldom-used Instagram account doesn't have access to my contacts.

And I haven't (yet) heard that the Threads app won't work unless it's given access to the information in a user's contacts app.

neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 2:39 pm
Did you read the linked article detailing what information it can harvest from your phone? (granted, it is a bigger problem with iPhones since on them ONE can't restrict an app to what it has access to-- on Android we can turn permissions off on what an each app can access).

YES, they are talking about PHONE contacts, not instagram contacts.

Do you have the Facebook or Instagram app on your phone? Keep in mind that this data collection by Meta is comparable to the data those apps collect about you.

neonzx wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 2:39 pm
Did you read the linked article detailing what information it can harvest from your phone? (granted, it is a bigger problem with iPhones since on them ONE can't restrict an app to what it has access to-- on Android we can turn permissions off on what an each app can access).

YES, they are talking about PHONE contacts, not instagram contacts.

much ado wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:25 pm The original image, unclipped, is scaled by 'rank', which seems to be rank by traffic to that domain.

bob wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:24 pm

much ado wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:25 pm The original image, unclipped, is scaled by 'rank', which seems to be rank by traffic to that domain.

So, in January, Twitter was the 32nd most visited site, and in July it dropped all the way to ... 40th.

bob wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:24 pm

much ado wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:25 pm The original image, unclipped, is scaled by 'rank', which seems to be rank by traffic to that domain.

So, in January, Twitter was the 32nd most visited site, and in July it dropped all the way to ... 40th.

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 9:19 am Within a week I started getting a friend suggestion for the husband of a former coworker. This was strictly a work contact from several years ago who had never been a Facebook friend. I did have her personal cell number in my contact list and that's the only way Facebook could have made that connection. So the rat bastards read my contact list even though I told them not to.

Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 14, 2023 4:17 pm Honestly, can't we have something that isn't owned by Mark Zuckerberg?

Shizzle Popped wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 9:19 am I Within a week I started getting a friend suggestion for the husband of a former coworker. This was strictly a work contact from several years ago who had never been a Facebook friend.

Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sat Jul 15, 2023 9:23 am I recall there were similar problems some years ago about The Algorithm in Facebook making undesirable friend suggestions. Psychologists, therapists, etc. were being linked to clients' partners, relatives, etc. via indirect A->B->C->D connections where each individual connection might be appropriate but the A->D connection was not. So a victim of domestic abuse might be offered his/her abuser or vice versa.

“Twitter’s cash flow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load, Elon Musk said on Saturday, falling short of his expectation in March that Twitter could reach cash flow positive by June. ‘Need to reach positive cash flow before we have the luxury of anything else’, Musk said in a tweet replying to suggestions on recapitalization. Musk said on Sunday in another tweet that Twitter did not see the increase in advertising revenue that had been expected in June, adding, ‘July is a bit more promising’.”

Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter
Sarah Perez @sarahintampa / 6:32 PM EDT•July 16, 2023

Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which had a weekly active user base of 1 million as of last week. The new insights, provided by app intelligence firm data.ai, follow another analysis of Threads’ early traction, which had demonstrated a slight dip in early usage. According to the app intelligence firm Sensor Tower late last week, Threads’ daily active users declined on Tuesday and Wednesday — down around 20% from Saturday. Time spent was also down by 50%, from 20 minutes to 10 minutes, the firm said, as reported by CNBC.

But momentum for Threads is far from over, data.ai points out. The app has now achieved over 150 million downloads, by its current estimates — which is 5.5 times faster than Niantic’s Pokémon GO, which had held the record for largest app launch title since its July 2016 debut. Data.ai also shared other new insights about the nature of Threads’ audience, finding that the Twitter rival had attracted an audience of around 93 million active users globally during its first partial week of availability, ahead of the official announcement of its 100 million signups milestone on July 10.

The firm also found that India, not the U.S., is leading in terms of downloads of the new app, accounting for 33% of global downloads. It’s followed by Brazil (22%), then the U.S. (16%), and finally Mexico and Japan, at 8% and 5%, respectively. Threads, however, is not available in the EU at this time due to regulatory hurdles related to privacy concerns and data collection practices. Meta even recently began preventing EU users from working around the block on Threads by way of VPNs.

A few days ago, Threads released its first major update since its launch, bringing support for iOS 17, now available as a public beta, among other smaller changes. Still ahead for the app are larger improvements like a following feed, an edit button, multi-account support and integration with ActivityPub, the protocol powering the popular, decentralized Twitter alternative Mastodon.