Just a year ago, I once declared Threads dead on arrival. Now it’s quietly kicking Elon’s X into irrelevance — no cage match required. From bots and hate speech to fleeing advertisers and Grok’s antisemitic meltdown, X is imploding.
Meanwhile, Threads is gaining ground on users, credibility, and momentum. Turns out iPINIONS was wrong, but that never felt so right.
Read it on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/threads-is-becoming-the-ex-twitter
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