Meta Launched Threads and People Are Calling it “Twitter Killer”
Meta launched Threads and people are calling it a potential “Twitter Killer” because it directly competes with Elon Musk’s Twitter. This totally blew away the world about their fierce business rivalry, but here’s a thought!
Doesn’t it remind us all of the Black Mirror episode “Joan Is Awful” of Season 6?
The fact that it reminded us all how we unintentionally or subconsciously allow these tech companies to invade our privacy and gather all our information by accepting their cookies at the beginning.
Netizens are equally amazed about these two rich tech titans and how they are making a fool out of us. Well, that’s what this is about, people just don’t know it, yet!
If you’re wondering where all of this is going, here’s what we know about this famous Twitter killer app:
What is Threads exactly?
Threads is a new app, introduced by Meta, a standalone competitor to Twitter. It has a 500-character limit text and connects each other by having real-time conversations.
It also has the option to share videos, pictures,s and sort a copycat of Instagram. Threads pose a direct threat to Twitter angering Elon Musk.
You can directly sign up from your Instagram to get immediate verification and import all your information, such as your bio, username, profile, and follow list, and make your appearance. See, it’s that easy.
Threads instantly gained huge success, with over 30 million users rushed to sign up as of Thursday morning-talk about striking a blow to Twitter’s coffin.
The anticipation was so intense that all celebrities, influencers, journalists, and many other prominent figures joined the bandwagon and it added more to the hype and curiosity.
Why Meta launched Threads despite being a direct competitor of Twitter?
Elon Musk took over Twitter in October 2022 after a lot of controversy. He immediately fired a lot of employees which resulted in hate speech against him.
Not only did he hurt the sentiments of a lot of users due to many changes in content usage, limited tweet viewing per day, upholding verification programs,
When considering these factors and wanting to give users a new experience, threads was finally launched after much anticipation.
You need to have an Instagram account to sign-up for threads.
You cannot escape once you sign-up on Threads
As we mentioned at the start of the blog, these tech titans reminded us of hit-series Black Mirror. Once you sign up, you’ve signed your soul over to them.
If you want to temporarily deactivate your profile on Threads, you simply cannot without deleting your Instagram account. This raises concerns and chaos among users.
Once, they got your contacts info, history, location, and much more then you won’t be able to get away.
Anyway, Threads is available to download on the Apple and Google Store. For now, only 100 countries are allowed to have access to Threads. Meta is planning to expand to more countries, including European countries so they could capture the potential markets even further and it is going to create a huge battle against Twitter.
You can go ahead and enjoy the new Twitter killer “Threads”. After all, everyone has some grudges against Elon Musk.
