We are in an age of uncertainty when it comes to social media. Twitter isn’t what it used to be and that has opened the door for all kinds of competitors to try and steal some of the microblogging platform’s user base. It is very confusing for Andy Gresh.
“There’s Twitter Spaces, right? Where people can go and gather and talk, right? Then there’s Threads, which is Elon Musk’s way of trying to create Instagram. Is that the gist?” he asked his producers on Thursday’s edition of Gresh & Fauria on WEEI.
When he was informed that Threads was actually Meta’s attempt to take on Twitter, Gresh admitted that he is not sure what any of the new Twitter competitors actually do.
“How do I find Threads? Do I go to Instagram” Christian Fauria asked.
The duo was trying to get to the bottom of a post from free agent wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins, who took to the new platform to explain how disappointed he was to find bacon in his clam chowder during a recent trip to Boston.
Gresh noted that it was interesting that they are discussing a controversy that happened on day one of the platform’s existence. If Threads isn’t going to capture everyone’s imagination, it will at least matter to Boston sports fans for a little while.
After multiple listeners joined the show’s Twitch stream to add their commentary and the findings of their own digital sleuthing to the discussion of Hopkins’ Threads post, Gresh admitted that the social media was not as easy to follow as it used to be.
“‘Where am I? Why am I here?’ That’s what it feels like.”
