Meta Officially Launches Threads—Challenging Elon Musk And Twitter
Meta Officially Launches Threads—Challenging Elon Musk And Twitter
by | July 5, 2023
Top Line
Meta’s Threads app, which shares a similar format with Twitter and is widely seen as Elon Musk’s most significant competition since the billionaire took over the social media platform, was launched Wednesday evening in a surprise announcement.
This photo shows the Threads Logo on a Cell Phone on 5th July 2023, in San … [+] Anselmo, California. Meta, Instagram’s parent company, is set to launch Threads July 6 as a possible rival to Twitter – the young social media platform run by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Photo Illustration by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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The Key Facts
Threads, which is now live on Apple’s App Store, will be linked to users’ Instagram accounts and offer a real-time platform, like Twitter’s, that allows text posts of up to 500 characters.