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Zuckerberg claims tens of millions of Threads signups within days of launch
8Jul By adminNo Comments
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Zuckerberg claims tens of millions of Threads signups within days of launch

More than 70 million people have signed up to Threads, Meta's rival to Twitter, within the first two days of its launch, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Friday.The number is likely to grow quickly as more Instagram users and social media fans open accounts on Threads. The app 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."70 million sign ups on Threads as of this morning. Way beyond our expectations." Zuckerberg wrote on Threads at noon Eastern time on Friday. The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday and won't have ads for now...
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New Twitter alternative, Threads, could rise above Mastodon, Blue Sky
7Jul By adminNo Comments
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New Twitter alternative, Threads, could rise above Mastodon, Blue Sky

As Twitter faces mounting backlash over its latest policy changes, alternative apps like Blue Sky and Mastodon are standing by to welcome disgruntled users of the Elon Musk-owned blogging platform. Yet while these fledgling communities for now remain bit players on the social scene, Meta's new Threads app may finally offer a real competitor to Twitter, experts say.Threads, which launched on Wednesday, is integrated with Instagram and is backed by Meta's vast technical and financial resources, potent advantages that have helped it quickly acquire tens of millions of users. But whether the platform can retain those users will depend on its ability to roll out features that appeal to Twitter defectors and replicate the app's pre-Musk culture. ...
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Zuckerberg claims millions of Threads signups within hours of launch
7Jul By adminNo Comments
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Zuckerberg claims millions of Threads signups within hours of launch

More than 30 million people have signed up to Threads, Meta's rival to Twitter, within the first few hours of its launch, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said late Thursday morning.The number is likely to grow quickly as more Instagram users and social media fans open accounts on Threads. The app 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."Wow, 30 million sign ups as of this morning. Feels like the beginning of something special, but we've got a lot of work ahead to build out the app," Zuckerberg wrote on Threads at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday.  The app went live on Apple and Android app stores in...
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Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s Threads App
6Jul By adminNo Comments
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Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s Threads App

Twitter parent company X Corp. is threatening to sue Meta over its new Threads app as the platform began racking up millions of users upon its Wednesday debut.A Silicon Valley legal firm representing X Corp. claimed in a letter first reported by Semafor that Meta had “engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” by poaching its employees.Threads is a text-based competitor to Twitter that was launched as a companion to Meta’s Instagram platform this week. Given all the chaos that has come with billionaire Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter late last year, some observers consider Threads to be a potential “Twitter killer.”Musk kicked off his tenure as head of Twitter by slashing the company’s payroll by at least three-...
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Mark Zuckerberg agrees to fight Elon Musk in cage match: “Send me location”
22Jun By adminNo Comments
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Mark Zuckerberg agrees to fight Elon Musk in cage match: “Send me location”

Elon Musk addresses Twitter controversies Elon Musk addresses Twitter controversies 01:59 Mark Zuckerberg has apparently agreed to fight Elon Musk in a cage match that would feature the billionaire leaders of two giant tech companies. Whether the two tech moguls are joking remains to be seen.While replying to a user discussing Meta's plans to build a Twitter rival, Musk challenged the company's founder on Wednesday to a "cage match" i...
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