Have you downloaded Threads yet?
Linked to Instagram, it allows users to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five minutes of video and links, as well as pictures.
The new app is the latest chapter in the rivalry between Mr Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October. Any accounts a user has blocked on Instagram will automatically be blocked on the new app and Instagram’s safety guidelines will be enforced on the new platform, Meta said.Eventually, the California-based company wants it to be possible for people without a Threads account to interact on the platform, which it hopes will usher in a “new era of diverse and interconnected networks”.
“They all have the same big problem, which is you have to start from zero – it’s a network that is completely new.
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