Threads has already signed up over 100 million users making it the fasting growing company in history.
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez left Twitter, where she has 13.3 million followers, to join the Threads bandwagon.“May this platform have good vibes, strong community, excellent humor and less harassment.” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in her first Threads post.
Mark Zuckerberg takes jab at Elon Musk with first tweet in years (nypost.com)
Mark Zuckerberg tweeted for the first time in 11 years the same day Meta launched its Twitter rival, Threads — and it playfully threw shade at Elon Musk.On Wednesday night, Zuckerberg tweeted out a photo of an infamous meme where Spider-Man is pointing at another Spider-Man.It was the 39-year-old Meta boss’s first tweet since January 2012, when he promoted one of his Facebook posts that has since been removed from the site.Zuckerberg didn’t include any text, though the timing of the post makes it apparent that he and Musk are the two men in Spider-Man costumes pointing at each other.On Wednesday, Meta launched Threads in more than 100 countries. The app is a highly-anticipated Twitter rival that will allow users to write text posts up to 500 characters long, plus photos and videos up to five minutes long. Similar to Twitter, users will also be able to like, repost and reply to others, though the platform does not currently offer direct message capabilities.
Although Threads launched as a standalone app, users can log in with their Instagram credentials and follow the same accounts.Threads’s ties to the already-popular social media site could make it appealing to Instagram’s more than 2 billion monthly active users to adopt.Within seven hours of its roll out, Threads scored over 10 million users — including seven of Twitter’s most followed users.Unsurprisingly, Musk didn’t make a Threads account. And though he also didn’t respond directly to Zuckerberg’s tweet, he took a jab at Instagram hours after the meme was posted.“It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram,” he tweeted The back-and-forth comes two weeks after 52-year-old Musk challenged Zuck to a cage match, in the wake of announcements that Meta planned to build a text-based social media platform that’s been referred to as the “Twitter killer.”