Christopher Mims on Nostr: Another conclusion: Much has been made of the surge and sudden drop in usage of ...
Another conclusion:
Much has been made of the surge and sudden drop in usage of Threads.
If you’ve never looked at the chart of the usage of a service when it goes supersonic, you might naively think this means Threads is already in trouble.
But a saw-tooth pattern where adoption is followed by a decline in usage – and then subsequent waves of re-engagement – is normal.
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