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Mark Zuckerberg says Twitter-rival Threads’ daily users ahead of expectations, reveals future plans
18Jul By adminNo Comments
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Mark Zuckerberg says Twitter-rival Threads’ daily users ahead of expectations, reveals future plans

[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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Amid Thread’s success, Elon Musk says Twitter can hit ‘an all-time record’
11Jul By adminNo Comments
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Amid Thread’s success, Elon Musk says Twitter can hit ‘an all-time record’

[ad_1] Meta's newest social media project Threads has been making all the right headlines ever since its launch on July 6. The app has become the fastest consumer app to reach 100 million users yesterday, July 10, beating ChatGPT which reached the milestone in two months. But it appears that despite the mind-numbing success of Threads, Twitter is still doing well and is set to create some new records of its own. If you go by company executive chair and CTO Elon Musk, and CEO Linda Yaccarino's words, that is.A few hours ago, Yaccarino tweeted, “Don't want to leave you hanging by a thread… but Twitter, you really outdid yourselves! Last week we had our largest usage day since February”. She added, likely taking a dig at Threads, and the other Twitter-like platforms, “There's only ONE Twit...
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Twitter-rival Threads launched ahead of schedule; Gets over 2 million users in just two hours
6Jul By adminNo Comments
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Twitter-rival Threads launched ahead of schedule; Gets over 2 million users in just two hours

[ad_1] The Instagram-powered text-based app Threads by Meta has been launched much earlier than its expected schedule of 7:30 PM IST on July 6. Cutting short the launch time by 15 hours, the platform went live at 4:30 AM IST. Both the iOS and the Android version of the app is available to download and install. The platform, which is going to rival Twitter, has seen a massive surge of users as soon as it went live. In just two hours, the app has witnessed registration of more than 2 million users, as per a report by The Verge. Let us take a look at this new social media platform.Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, told The Verge that he acknowledges that Twitter has pioneered the text-based social media platform but “just given everything that was going on, we thought there was an oppor...
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Threads, the Twitter rival from Instagram, may launch on July 6; what we know so far
4Jul By adminNo Comments
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Threads, the Twitter rival from Instagram, may launch on July 6; what we know so far

[ad_1] Over the last few months, we have heard about this new Twitter rival app called Threads, which is being built by Instagram. We have seen a couple of leaked screenshots that highlighted that while the visual aesthetics of the platform will be similar to Instagram, the functionality is close to what Twitter offers. Additionally, just like some other Twitter rivals that have emerged recently such as Bluesky and Mastodon, Threads is also likely to be a decentralized platform. And now, reports have revealed that after all the anticipation, the app is likely to launch on July 6, in just two days' time.The report comes from The Verge, which found the App Store listing mentioning that “Threads, an Instagram app” will be available to download on July 6. This information follows the Google...
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