Even Twitter employees are signing up to Mark Zuckerberg's Threads, report says
The publication selected a random sample of 133 Twitter employees identified by their LinkedIn pages and matched them to corresponding Threads accounts. Insider was not able to independently verify the workers.
Per The Daily Beast, at least one staffer took to the app to praise Meta's Twitter clone:"I'm going to get fired for this, but I work at Twitter right now and have never really used it. Threads is just better." However, other staffers appeared to be simply checking out the competition, per the publication, with one simply posting"Test 1."
Twitter did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment made outside normal working hours. Esther Crawford, a former Twitter executive who rose to fame after being pictured sleeping on the office floor, has also signed up for Meta's Threads. Crawford
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