Welcome to the Tech Meam bride Home for Friday, July 28th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

The whole Threads Saga has been a whirlwind. At the beginning of the month, I asked if Threads had already won, and now at the beginning of the month I asked if threads had already won and

now at the end of the month I'm wondering if the clock is ticking in terms of

their chances of survival. Generative AI but for robots robots, our VC's pulling back from the crypto space and of course

the weekend long read suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

How's Threads doing? Part 11? Yeah, it seems even Zuck is aware that it remains

undercooked and if it remains that way too much longer it's going to be a problem increasingly.

At an internal town hall, Meta Exex said Meta is looking to add more retention driving hooks to threads,

like showing Instagram users important threads

though again desktop dms anything hashtags maybe that sooner rather than later

quoting Reuters

Meta Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention for their new

Twitter rival threads.

After the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks

following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees on Thursday.

Retention of users on the text-based app was better than executives had expected, though it was not perfect, said Zuckerberg, speaking at an internal company town hall the

audio of which was heard by Reuters obviously if you have more than a hundred million

people sign up ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around.

We're not there yet, he said.

Zuckerberg said he considered the drop-off normal and expected retention to grow as the company

adds more features to the app including a desktop version and

search functionality. Meta is looking at adding more retention driving hooks to

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