More than 10 million people have signed up to Threads, Meta’s rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of social media’s most iconic companies, despite its epic struggles.The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 23:00 GMT on Wednesday, and will run with no ads for now.
Back on Threads, he wrote: “It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”Threads was introduced as a clear spin-off of Instagram, which offers a built-in audience of more than 2 billion users, thereby sparing the new platform the challenge of starting from scratch.
“You can’t even switch to see only the people you follow,” she said. “It does look like the random profiles are like the same big accounts on Twitter to be honest, but not having the choice to only see tweets from people you choose to follow kind of ruined it for me.” Under Musk, Twitter has seen content moderation reduced to a minimum with glitches and rash decisions scaring away celebrities and major advertisers.The Tesla tycoon said last week that he was limiting access to Twitter to ward off AI companies from “scraping” the site to train their technology.
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