As of right now, 70 million people have signed up for Threads, a brand-new social media site from Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp that competes with Twitter. From his Threads account, Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, published the most recent statistics regarding the number of users that joined the site. Zuckerberg had 70 million registrations on Threads as of this morning. It was much better than we had anticipated, he remarked. According to reports, Threads' user base has rapidly grown as a result of the ability for users to access the site via their Instagram accounts.
Wednesday saw the release of Threads. On Wednesday, Meta unveiled Threads, a brand-new social networking site that competes with Twitter. In its description of Threads, a service with a Twitter-like interface, He said that the Instagram team had just released a new app called Threads that allows users to share text and participate in group chats. The announcement emphasized that links, images, and 5-minute films can all be shared in addition to the 500-character limit on the new platform. Because of Threads, Twitter allegedly threatened to sue Meta. Twitter's lawyer, Alex Spiro, voiced grave concern in a letter to Zuckerberg about Meta's systematic, willful, and illegal use of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property.
Spiro noted that Meta hired former Twitter personnel the previous year and asserted that the business purposefully engaged these individuals to create Meta's cloned Threads product within a short period of time. The owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, also stated on Twitter that competition is healthy and should not involve dishonesty. No one on the Threads technical team is a former employee of Twitter, according to Andy Stone, director of communications at Meta, in response to the letter from Twitter's attorney.