London: Multinational company Meta has released a new app ‘Threads’ to compete with social media platform Twitter. This new app will directly challenge the social media platform owned by industrialist Elon Musk. ‘Threads’ Meta is a ‘text’ (idea/message) sharing version of the photo-sharing app Instagram.
According to the company, the app is “a new platform for the most up-to-date information and public conversation”. will provide. The app became available on Apple and Google’s Android app stores in more than 100 countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Japan, after midnight on Wednesday. As soon as the app became available, celebrities such as chef Gordon Ramsay, and pop stars Shakira, and Mark Hoyle set up accounts on it.
No ‘thread’ on this (i.e. to the post) to ‘Like’, ‘Repost’, ‘Reply’, and ‘coat’ There is an option to do so. All these options are also available on Twitter. The company said, “Our motto is ‘Threads’ To provide a platform through which ‘text’ (ideas/messages) and more focused on communication, such as Instagram’s focus on images and videos.
In this new app, there is a ‘Post’ The character limit for Twitter has been fixed at 500, while on Twitter it is 280. In this, links, pictures, and videos up to five minutes long can be shared. Meta has put emphasis on measures to provide a secure platform to the users. Instagram’s Community Guidelines are implemented in this. Users can control whether their ‘threads’ But who can answer?
Meta’s Twitter rival Threads just went live and has already exceeded 10 million signups within the first seven hours, according to (a Thread by) CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Then, as the west coast was waking up, Zuckerberg noted that the app already has more than 30 million sign-ups “as of this morning.” The app is now available globally (except in Europe), with the rapid signup pace showing Meta’s enormous ability to scale up compared to other Twitter rivals like Bluesky — which still requires invite codes.
However, security-related questions are being raised regarding this new app of Meta. ‘App Store’ According to its data privacy information available on ‘Threads’ health, financial, contacts, browsing and search, location (your location), shopping, and “sensitive information” may collect a wide range of personal information, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launched the ‘App Store’ On ‘Threads’ Sharing a picture (screenshot) of the information related to the tweet, “All your threads belong to us”.” Responding to this tweet, Musk wrote, “Yes.
