Mark Zuckerberg has declared war on Twitter's strategy as$Meta Platforms (META.US)$rolls out its new app, Threads—by describing Elon Musk's social media giant as unfriendly andshort of reaching its full potential.
"It'll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with1 billion+people on it," Zuckerberg wrote when asked on Threads whether the app will be "bigger than Twitter."
Source: Threads
Inless than 24 hoursafter launch, Threads has signed up more than30 million users, surged to the top of app store download charts.
The launch also drew a sharply-worded legal letter from a Twitter lawyer who blasted Threads as a "copycat" based on improperly obtained "trade secrets."
"Competition is fine, cheating is not", Twitter boss Elon Musk tweeted.
Source: Twitter
Threads is designed as a direct rival to Twitter and resembles Twitter in its format, dynamics and even name, — "threads" on Twitter are a series of connected tweets from one account.
Here's how specific features compare in Threads, Instagram and Twitter.
Source: Bloomberg
The palpable buzz for the latest app in town means that leaders are already in for competition.
Mooers, who will win the competition, Elon or Zuck?
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MorrisJen75
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They are both con men with no common sense. The question really is, which one will the willfully ignorant public embrace? Answer: it doesn’t matter because while the majority are occupied playing god in their one-man phone universes, big companies are ushering in wide spread economic and environmental disaster to ensure our futures are equally short and painful.
Danielljy SG :
MorrisJen75 : They are both con men with no common sense. The question really is, which one will the willfully ignorant public embrace? Answer: it doesn’t matter because while the majority are occupied playing god in their one-man phone universes, big companies are ushering in wide spread economic and environmental disaster to ensure our futures are equally short and painful.