Over one hundred million users have signed up on Threads, a
text-based app, within four days of its launch.
On July 6, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Meta, the parent
company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, launched Threads to rival Elon
Musk’s Twitter.
The launch comes days after Musk announced that a temporary
limit has been imposed on the number of posts users can read daily on Twitter.
He said verified users will have access to 6,000 posts
daily, while unverified and new users will be allowed to read 600 and 300
posts, respectively.
LAWSUIT THREAT
Following the launch of Threads, Twitter threatened
Zuckerberg with a lawsuit over “the unlawful misappropriation” of its trade
secrets.
In the letter, Alex Spiro, Twitter’s lawyer, described
Threads as a “copycat” and said that Meta had hired dozens of former Twitter
employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s highly confidential
information”.
However, Andy Stone, Meta spokesman, in his response to the
allegation, said “no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter
employee – that’s just not a thing”.
Threads comes with features similar to those of Twitter,
such as liking, reposting, and deciding who can reply to conversations.
Users can also follow and connect with others who share
similar interests, and build a loyal following of their own to share their
ideas, opinions, and creativity with the world.
However, the new app, unlike Twitter, does not have an edit
button or a direct message (DM) feature. It is however superior in terms of
word length – 500 counts; and video length of 5 minutes.
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