Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have been competing fiercely ever since Musk bought Twitter. He made his intentions clear about what he wanted to do with Twitter to compete with Facebook or Meta. It seems like Mark Zuckerberg also wants to retaliate by launching a new Twitter-like App called Thread.
Threads, a new Twitter-competing app from Facebook owner Meta, was available for pre-order on Monday in the mobile app stores for the iPhone and Android operating systems.
Listed as "Threads, the Instagram app," the new app should be available in the coming days, and the Apple App Store describes it as "Instagram's text-based chat." "Threads is a place where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics that matter today to the trends of tomorrow," reads the app's description in the store.
The topic was launched after continued uncertainty on Twitter after Tesla owner Elon Musk took over in October. The billionaire rebuilt the company, laid off thousands and put many features behind a subscription paywall. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, announced in mid-March that it was working on a new social network that it described as a potential competitor to Twitter.
Threads allows users to "connect directly with your favorite creators and others who love the same things — or build a loyal following to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world," according to the app store's description. "We envision a decentralized, independent social network for sharing text messages in real time," the group said in a statement to AFP.
Twitter sparked outrage last week when Musk announced the platform would limit the number of tweets read per day, with people who don't pay for subscriptions - the vast majority of users - limited to 1,000 tweets per day. The purpose of the decision was to limit the use of social network data by third parties, especially companies that feed artificial intelligence models.
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