The app garnered more than 5 million sign-ups in its first four hours, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg said on his Threads account.
“There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion-plus people on it,” the Meta chief executive officer said in an earlier post on Threads.Many of Instagram’s influential users have been asking the company to make a text-based app, according to Connor Hayes, a vice president of product.
Instagram and Facebook, both owned by Meta, have a long — and successful — history of copying products from upstart internet competitors. Meta’s apps in the past have competed indirectly for user attention with Twitter by courting news publishers, politicians and other high-profile people to favor posting on one versus the other.
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