As Threads continues to grow rapidly — featuring more than 100 million users after five days of existence — many are questioning the future of Twitter. Place MSNBC host Joy Reid firmly in that camp.
During The Reid Out, Reid gave a personal example as reasoning for why she questions the future of the platform owned by Elon Musk.
“I’m just gonna give you myself as an example. I’m somebody who — I stopped using Twitter quite a long time ago. I don’t tweet and I don’t want to give Elon any content,” Reid stated. “But every so often, I would check it, just as an aggregator, just to see if there’s any news in there in between the Nazi tweets.
“I stopped doing that, because it’s like, I don’t want to have to read through Nazi crap just to see what’s in the news. Threads? Since that has launched there’s, to me, no reason to check Twitter anymore. All of the major — Nato blog is on there, The Washington Post is on there. All the stuff I would normally read. I can aggregate it on Threads. Twitter now is useless to me. If people like me are leaving, I don’t know how Twitter survives.”
Some reports have claimed that Twitter has experienced an extreme drop in traffic since the launch of Threads. However, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccrino claimed the site featured its busiest day since February last week.
