{"id":169012,"date":"2023-08-04T08:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/elon-musk-says-mark-zuckerbergs-threads-committed-the-cardinal-sin-of-boring-people-to-death"},"modified":"2023-08-04T08:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T13:23:03","slug":"elon-musk-says-mark-zuckerbergs-threads-committed-the-cardinal-sin-of-boring-people-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/elon-musk-says-mark-zuckerbergs-threads-committed-the-cardinal-sin-of-boring-people-to-death","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Threads \u2018Committed The Cardinal Sin\u2019 Of Boring People To Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-says-mark-zuckerbergs-threads-committed-the-cardinal-sin-of-boring-people-to-death.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <strong class=\"\">Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s<\/strong> META latest social media platform, Threads\u2019 daily active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/23\/07\/33238711\/elon-musk-laughs-as-mark-zuckerbergs-threads-loses-steam-while-twitter-usage-rises\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">user count continues to drop<\/a>, <strong class=\"\">Elon Musk <\/strong>has accused <strong class=\"\">Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s<\/strong> forum of committing a \u201ccardinal sin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">What Happened: <\/strong>Meta\u2019s Threads entered the social media arena with much fanfare, quickly attracting over <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/23\/07\/33160048\/threads-app-hits-100m-users-in-just-five-days-becomes-the-fastest-growing-app-in-history\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">100 million sign-ups<\/a> in just five days.<\/p>\n<p>However, the initial hype didn\u2019t translate into long-term user retention, as the daily active user count witnessed a staggering 82% decline since its peak at 44 million users on launch day, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/03\/tech\/threads-user-count-falls\/index.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"\">reported<\/a> CNN, citing data from Sensor Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Meta Platforms Inc.\u2019s META latest social media platform, Threads\u2019 daily active user count continues to drop, Elon Musk has accused Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s forum of committing a \u201ccardinal sin.\u201d What Happened: Meta\u2019s Threads entered the social media arena with much fanfare, quickly attracting over 100 million sign-ups in just five days. However, the initial hype [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}