Threads is a new social media platform launched yesterday by Meta Inc and it is called Threads. It is the new guy in town. It was introduced by Meta specifically to kick out Twitter and so far it has proven to be a worthy rival to Twitter.
Much like Twitter, the app features short text posts that users can like, re-post and reply to with either short text or video or picture. It has a bit of both the features of Instagram and Twitter combined in one. It is more like Twitter for Instagram.
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Threads garnered over 10 million users in less than seven hours after its launch on Wednesday, as of now Threads can boast of having over thirty million users.
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I am quite sure that Mark Zuckerberg has been working on rolling out a solid competition against Twitter and sending his current number-one rival Elon Musk back to Tesla but he has been waiting for the right time to strike. There could have been no other better time other than now that people are rumbling against Twitter and threatening to totally leave the platform for good over the number of views per day feature that was recently introduced by Elon Musk into Twitter, coupled with the earlier verification payment which some users are yet to come to peace with.
It will surely be an elephant fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuck as I can bet that Elon Musk will not sit and watch Mark win this competition war over him. Elon Musk may currently be working on rolling out a new app that could be similar to Instagram or Facebook or he will be working on adding more features to Twitter so as not to lose Its users to Threads.
Threads I believe is still at the testing stage as there are still many features missing from the platform which I know will be introduced subsequently; there is no edit button yet (just like prior Twitter), and there is no live feature or story feature yet, there is no direct message yet, you can not optimize your timeline or view only what you choose and numerous other things they need to get fixed.
Hopefully, it does not become as toxic as Twitter or as porous as Instagram.
Well, If you are to get on Threads, I suggest you do that immediately because I believe Mark Zuckerberg is not joking with it; let’s connect on threads if you are already there;
My username is @stanalieke.
