Elon Musk Threads – pressnews

[ad_1] On July 1, Twitter executive chair and CTO Elon Musk announced via a tweet that the microblogging platform will be slapping temporary rate limits on users to “address extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation”. The move became highly unpopular on the platform and witnessed many users even leaving it for rivals such as Mastodon and BlueSky, both of which witnessed a major uptick in new users. Now, less than a month later, Instagram's Twitter-rival Threads has also been forced to apply rate limits in order to fight spam attacks on the platform. And Elon Musk reacted in a hilarious manner to this move.Instagram head Adam Mosseri said on Threads, “Spam attacks have picked up so we're going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to mean more ...

[ad_1] Ever since its launch on July 6, Meta's Instagram-powered Twitter-rival app Threads has been hitting big milestones. Just five days after its launch, it surpassed the massive 100 million registered users on the platform, becoming the fastest consumer application to reach this milestone and beating OpenAI's ChatGPT's record of 2 months. And now, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has highlighted that the users are actively using the platform weeks after the launch.A few hours ago, Zuckerberg posted on Threads and said, “I'm very optimistic about how the Threads community is coming together. Early growth was off the charts, but more importantly, 10s of millions of people now come back daily. That's way ahead of what we expected”. He also revealed what the company plans to do with the platfor...

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Surprise! Threads does a Twitter, announces ‘rate limits’ on number of posts; Elon Musk reacts

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