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Meta’s new offering, however, has raised data privacy concerns. Meta emphasized measures to keep users safe, including enforcing Instagram’s community guidelines and providing tools to control who can mention or reply to users. New users will have to set up an Instagram account. Instagram users will be able to log in with their existing usernames and follow the same accounts on the new app.

Posts are limited to 500 characters, which is more than Twitter’s 280-character threshold, and can include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long.ĭespite that, Meta said its “vision is that Threads will be a new app more focused on text and dialogue, modeled after what Instagram has done for photo and video.” On Threads, there are buttons to like, repost, reply to or quote a thread, and users see the number of likes and replies that a post has received.

“That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently,” he wrote. Zuckerberg said in some early replies on Threads that he’s focused on making the app “a friendly place,” which will “ultimately be the key to its success.”

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The Twitter-like microblogging experience suggests that Meta Platforms has been gearing up to directly challenge the platform after Musk’s tumultuous ownership has resulted in a series of unpopular changes that have turned off users and advertisers. Threads launched in more than 100 countries - including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan - and has already drawn celebrity users like chef Gordon Ramsay, pop star Shakira and actor Jack Black as well as accounts from Airbnb, Guinness World Records, Netflix, Vogue magazine and other media outlets. But his replies to other users did appear. There were some early glitches, including Zuckerberg’s posts - or Threads as they’re dubbed - not loading in several places including the United Kingdom, India and Lebanon.

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It went live late Wednesday in Apple and Google Android app stores, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying 10 million people had signed up in the first seven hours. READ MORE: Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram. Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta’s photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides “a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations.” In an online exchange between Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the two tech billionaires seemingly agreed to a cage match face-off, though it’s unclear if they will actually make it to the ring.Meta has unveiled an app called Threads to rival Twitter, targeting users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned - and frequently changed - by Elon Musk. Musk’s rivalry with Meta Platforms also could end up spilling over into real life. “It’s hard to tell whether the upset and discontent is strong enough to make a mass exodus or whether it will be somewhat of a slow erosion,” Navarra said. And would-be Twitter challengers like Mastodon have found it a challenge to sign up users. Still, some users might be put off by Meta’s data privacy track record, Navarra said. It comes after outcry over Musk’s announcement this weekend that Twitter has limited the number of tweets users can view each day - restrictions that the billionaire Tesla CEO described as an attempt to stop unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data. TweetDeck is popular with companies and news organizations, allowing users to manage multiple Twitter accounts. The policy announced Monday takes effect in 30 days and appears to be aimed at raising extra revenue because users need to pay have their accounts verified under Musk’s changes. Twitter has rolled out a series of unpopular changes in recent days, including a requirement for users to be verified to use the online dashboard TweetDeck. Allowing Instagram users to port their profile to Threads could give the new app more traction with potential users by providing a ready-made set of accounts for them to follow, said Navarra, former director of social media at tech news site The Next Web and digital communications adviser for the British government.