Threads: Twitter Killer

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Welcome to Threads, Zuckerberg’s friendly internet utopia where everyone gets along while watching Twitter crash and burn…


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Mark Zuckerberg wants Threads to be a friendly space. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

Mark Zuckerberg wants Threads to be a friendly space. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC© Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC

  • Meta’s newest app is here: Threads.
  • Mark Zuckerberg bills Threads as a space for kindness — but he’s not above using it to ding Elon Musk.
  • Threads arrives as Twitter has another disastrous week.

So, welcome to Threads, Mark Zuckerberg’s new online Disneyland that officially opened for business on Wednesday, where everyone gets along happily and kindness is the order of the day.

At least that’s the idea.

As the Meta chief put it on the new Threads app, the vision is “to create an open and friendly public space for conversation” for 1 billion-plus people. A post from the official Threads account doubled down on the ambition to “foster a positive and creative space” for users to express themselves.

A quick refresher: Threads is Meta’s most direct shot at Twitter yet. It’s a standalone app that enables public, text-based updates and conversations from users, and is tied to your Instagram identity. Some 10 million people signed up for Threads within seven hours of its public launch early Thursday.

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upuzi

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Whether it succeeds or not, i am happy that he is attempting to puncture an apartheid fueled kleptomaniac

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‘Wow, 30 Million Sign Ups!’: Mark Zuckerberg Takes a Victory Lap Over Elon Musk With Launch of Twitter Rival Threads

Story by Jennifer Bowers Bahney • 1h ago

Mark Zuckerberg took a victory lap on his Threads account Thursday, declaring the new app had “30 million sign-ups” just hours after its launch.

Threads is Zuckerberg’s answer to rival Elon Musk‘s Twitter, the social media juggernaut that the SpaceX CEO bought in 2022 for $44 billion. The latest numbers had Twitter at nearly 400 million registered users.

Zuckerberg broadcast membership updates on his account from,”2 million sign ups in the first two hours,” to “10 million sign ups in seven hours” that included a “mind blown” emoji. His most recent update exclaimed, “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 built out the app.”

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Threads is a text-based messaging app that allows Instagram users to sign up with their same usernames and opt to keep the same followers as on the photo-sharing app.

Fox News reported on some of the “hiccups” surrounding the launch.

“Some users have been able to access certain content, and a number of data privacy concerns are being raised,” reported Fox Business host Kelly O’Grady. “And, actually, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey even shared this: it’s a screenshot from the app store of all the data Threads will collect on you — including health and financial information — with the very cheeky caption, ‘All your Threads belong to us.’ So, it definitely underscores that prevalent concern how social media platforms treat user data.”

The launch of Threads comes as Twitter flounders under Musk’s myriad changes that have angered some users. According to CNBC:

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@Siko_Twitter na siko @thread

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When Elon Musk joined Twitter, he took a scythe to its workforce. By some reports, Musk fired over 80% of its employees. As a result, the site has seen a degradation in reliability and content moderation.

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Mark Zuckerberg speaking into microphone in front of wood background (l) Elon Musk threads speaking into microphone in front of grey background (r)

Things got so bad that over the 4th of July, Musk limited how many tweets people could read.

Now, the layoffs may play another part in Twitter’s possible demise. Yesterday, Meta launched its Twitter rival Threads. Musk immediately threatened to sue, according to a report in Semafor.

In a letter sent to Meta by Twitter obtained by the outlet, an attorney wrote that “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”

Twitter also accused Meta of hiring employees that "had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

While it’s unclear what kind of non-competes former employees were bound by when they were let go by Twitter, we know what Musk thought of them when they were fired.

In response to a tweet noting that Musk may have been firing employees who criticized him on Twitter, Musk wrote, “I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.”

It appears Musk now thinks that great use was to help build what many—given Meta and Instagram’s built-in user base—consider to be the most likely threat to Twitter’s microblogging dominance.

Twitter users (who haven’t left the platform for Threads) started recycling Musk’s old tweet in the wake of the lawsuit threat against Meta.

While Musk hasn’t replied to responses about his insults to former employees, he did claim Meta was cheating in building their Twitter competitor.

“Competition is fine, cheating is not,” he wrote.

However, a source within Meta told Semafor the accusation was bunk.

"No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee—that’s just not a thing,” they said.

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Naweza ona porno huko?

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Haina browser based ui, only mobile app. Sina twitter account but I used to browse twitter once in a while. Musk ametufungia mlango sisi watu hatuna accounts. Still not signing up.

Anyways…

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/06/tech/twitter-meta-threads-legal-threat/index.html

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His platform will fail to beat twitter as long as Zuckerberg is censor happy kufurahisha feds inside META.

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You really believe that Elon Musk is the last grand champion of free speech?

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FFS @administrator can we quote in peace without system editing our shit out?

From now on when I quote someone I’ll remove a fullstop to prevent this system fuckery.

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Atleast he is far more lenient than Zuckerberg. On twitter we can see different points of views zile hauwezi ona kwa Zuckerberg. For example try questioning the efficiency of the covid vaccine uone vile utatupwa Siberia very fast.
His staff are former twitter employees and we all know how those ppl were especially kama umesoma twitter files from independent journalists.

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mi naelekea apa kwanza after kujoin threads very fast😁

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https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1677082482548813824?t=uKf7rzYSL61E3E4AbrVaIA&s=19

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Meta swats away Elon Musk’s litigation threats:

Elon Musk fired everyone from Twitter and said their immense talent would be of great use elsewhere. Zuckerberg hired them to build Thread. Now Elon is suing Zuck for poaching his top folks.

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app called Threads, which has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this week as a rival to Elon Musk’s social media platform.

In a letter Wednesday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a “copycat” app.

The move ramps up the tensions between the social media giants after Threads debuted Wednesday, targeting those who are seeking out alternatives to Twitter amid unpopular changes Musk has made to the platform since buying it last year for $44 billion.

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote Thursday on Threads: “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing.”

In the letter, which news website Semafor first reported Thursday, Spiro said Twitter “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights” and noted the company’s right to seek civil remedies or a court injunction.

He said the letter marked a “formal notice” for Meta to preserve documents relevant for a potential dispute between the companies.

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This kind of info is lost in the typical population. Iyo Twitter Files ilikaziwa mbaya sana such news could only be found on TikTok and Twitter

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Hata ile ilionyeshwa by media was sanitized and twisted. A lot of people didn’t read the full story.

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Threads has a 0% chance of displacing twitter. For many reasons but here are 2:

  1. You must have an insta account. Na kama hautaki insta?
  2. No website. You must install the app. Na kama hautaki app?

That being said Elon is an idiot na anafaa arusdishie jack site yake

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Wank infront of your dressing mirror and watch free porn in so doing