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Mark Zuckerberg says Twitter-rival Threads’ daily users ahead of expectations, reveals future plans

18Jul

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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...

‘Twitter-killer’ Threads user engagement drops after massive initial surge

17Jul

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‘Twitter-killer’ Threads user engagement drops after massive initial surge

[ad_1] 'Twitter-killer', that's how everyone was describing Threads as it soared past the 100 million mark in just 5 days. It even set a record for being the fastest social media platform to reach that number. While everyone was flocking to Instagram's new microblogging platform, Twitter was dealing with its issues of data scraping and system manipulation. However, the tables now seemed to have turned as the initial fad about Threads seems to be fading as the microblogging platform has witnessed a huge drop in user engagement in the last few days.Drop in user engagementWithin 24 hours of launch, Threads had amassed 50 million sign-ups, and in further 7 days, it gained 150 million users, becoming the fastest platform to do so. In a conversation with CNBC, Anthony Bartolacci, managing dir...

Twitter issues big warning to Threads; says will sue for stealing trade secrets

7Jul

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Twitter issues big warning to Threads; says will sue for stealing trade secrets

[ad_1] In a shocking turn of events, Meta's Instagram-powered social media platform Threads has received a warning from Twitter where it has alleged that the former has stolen trade secrets and intellectual property of the latter. As per reports, Twitter has expressed concerns over Meta's “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation” of Twitter's confidential data and codes to build Threads.The contents of a leaked email by Twitter to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has been obtained by Semafor, which states, “Based on the recent reports regarding your recently launched ‘Threads' app, Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (“Meta”) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property”. Twitter threatens to ...

Here is how to use Twitter-rival, the Meta-owned, Threads app

6Jul

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Here is how to use Twitter-rival, the Meta-owned, Threads app

[ad_1] Meta has launched a new messaging app called Threads, which is a direct challenge to Twitter. The app is designed to facilitate text-based conversations and is being promoted as Instagram's own text-based conversation app.Threads is now available for free download on the Apple App Store and Google Play in more than 100 countries, according to Meta's official blog post. The app shares a similar visual style to Twitter, allowing users to post short messages that can be liked, shared, and commented on. In fact, when quizzed by The Verge, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri agreed that posts on Threads are “kind of” tweets. And this has started the debate over whether to call them "threets" as opposed to tweets used for Twitter posts. Screenshots available on the Apple App Store reveal the Th...

Twitter-rival Threads launched ahead of schedule; Gets over 2 million users in just two hours

6Jul

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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...