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Daniel Popescu / ⧉ Pluralisk's avatar

Excelent articolul! Multumesc pentru o sinteza foarte la zi. E important sa intelegem directia platformelor, mai ales cu „ghost posts” de la Threads. Partea cu AI si bonurile false e un semnal serios despre cum trebuie abordata tehnologia.

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Robots and Chips's avatar

Phenomenal coverage as always Radu! The Threads ghost posts test is fascinating from a platform strategy perspective. Meta is essentially borrowing the ephemerality playbook from Stories/Snapchat but applying it to text-first content, which Threads desperately needs to differentiate from X. The Halloween timing is clever marketing but I suspect Meta is also using this as a low-stakes test for engagement mechanics. If ghost posts drive higher frequency posting (because the pressure to curate a permanent profile is removed), that directly addresses Threads' biggest challenge: retention beyond initial signup. What's really smart is having a separate feed for ghost posts rather than mixing them into the main timeline. That suggests Meta learned from Stories - don't cannibalize your core feed format, create an additive behavior pattern. The question is whether text-based ephemeral content has the same appeal as visual ephemeral content. Stories worked because photo/video naturally feels 'in the moment'. Text feels more permanent and considered. Will people actually use ghost posts differently than regular threads, or will it just fragment the UI without changing behavior? The fact that only text is supported (no media) in the initial test is telling - Meta wants to understand pure text ephemerality before introducing the compelxity of image/video lifecycles. One tactical note: if ghost posts get traction, it could finally give Threads a content moat that X can't easily copy due to their different information architecture. X's whole value prop is the permanent public record - ephemeral tweets would undermine their core positioning. Threads doesn't have that constraint. Also your AI features section is incredibly valuable - the Meta AI Canvas/Research/Reasoning updates suggest they're positioning against ChatGPT's interface paradigms rather than just playing catch-up on model quality.

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