Meta is launching a competitor app for Twitter called Threads, which will soon be out for people to sign up. It's also arguably the perfect time to release the new text-based conversation app as Twitter is slowly crumbling and losing users due to the constant changes made.
Meta's Threads
Twitter is now only a shadow of what it used to be, and while Mastodon and BlueSky are ready to welcome users who are looking for an alternative, Meta is also throwing its hat in the ring as it will soon release Threads. It can already be found in Apple's App Store for pre-orders.
Threads technically serves as a branch of Instagram and it functions just like Twitter in the premise that people can share thoughts through texts. Its connection to Instagram allows users to log in using their Instagram handle, as reported by The Verge.
With the functionality, it will be easier to find the accounts you already follow on the photo-based app. It will also be familiar as it appears just like Twitter, but it uses Instagram's icons like the heart icon, the comment icon, the share icon, and a new report icon.
The new app briefly appeared in Android's app store, Google Play, although it did not show the release date as the App Store did. Reports say that Meta's Threads will integrate oath the decentralized social media protocol ActivityPub.
There's also the possibility that the app will be rolled out gradually, taking its disappearance on the Google Play store as a sign. It will likely be released in the US first before it launches in other countries. In the meantime, people will have to stay on Twitter a bit longer.
Twitter under Elon Musk has just been one bad decision after another. Its latest changes now limit the number of posts a user can see in a day, which depends on whether they are new and unverified, old and unverified, or subscribed to Twitter Blue.
If users usually look through thousands of tweets a day, they will need to have a verified account to get the 8,000 reading limit for posts. For new unverified accounts, the limit is as low as 400, and 800 for old yet unverified accounts.
The App That Prompted the Fight
If you haven't heard, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are set to fight it out in a cage match, and it's all because of Meta creating Threads in the first place as Twitter's competitor. It started off with a report of the new app shared on Twitter.
Elon Musk being Elon Musk, he replied saying that he's sure "sure Earth can't wait to be exclusively under Zuck's thumb with no other options." When a user pointed out that the Meta CEO knows jiu-jitsu, Musk said that he was "up for a cage match if he is."
Zuckerberg upon seeing the tweet took a screenshot and posted it as his Instagram Story with the caption "Send Me Location." It looks like the two are serious about it as well as Musk is now training for the anticipated fight.
