Meta Platforms Inc. aims to challenge Elon Musk's struggling service with the launch of Threads, an app developed on Instagram featuring Twitter-like features. Launch date unknown.
Elon Musk’s struggling service may finally have some competition as rival social media business Meta Platforms Inc. appears set to launch an alternative service named “Threads” while ongoing problems at Twitter Inc. persisted into today.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Meta plans to release Threads “soon,” though the specific date is not known. The service is being developed on top of Instagram and is anticipated to imitate a number of features already provided by Twitter. It’s possible that Threads may launch very soon, despite the fact that numerous users discovered the app live in some app stores over the weekend.In 2019, it was claimed that Threads for Instagram would be an “intimate” communication feature for Instagram.But the one that appears to have emerged afterward says much more about
The app’s listing defines it as “where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow.”claims that the app might make use of a decentralized system similar to that of the anticipated Twitter substitutes Bluesky and Mastodon. It likewise asserts that Instagram is enlisting well-known people, like Oprah, and internet influencers as beta testers.
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