Meta launched its microblogging app Threads on Thursday, the latest among several platforms that have been designed to rival Twitter as users jump ship from the beleaguered social media site.
The company behind Instagram and Facebook pitched Threads as an app that will do for text and dialogue what Instagram did for photos and video.
“There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will,” Meta CEO Zuckerberg said on Threads, where he now has a million followers.
Millions of people signed up for the app within hours of
