Meta is not the first company to compete with Twitter.
The American technology company Meta is establishing a competitor to Twitter.
Meta will launch its new Threads app on Thursday. For example, news about it BBC.
The application is already available for pre-order from Apple’s application store.
“New Twitter” will be integrated into Meta’s other products. This means that the Threads app can get the user’s location data, online shopping data, and browsing history from other Meta apps.
News media released screenshots of the new app on Tuesday. Its appearance is unmistakably similar to Twitter.
CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg has borrowed ideas from other companies in the past. For example, Instagram’s reel feature is copied from the Chinese Tiktok, according to Business Insider.
Meta is not the first company to compete with Twitter.
For example, Mastadon and Donald Trump’s Truth Social bears a striking resemblance to Twitter.
Zuckerberg and Musk fighting?
Metan Zuckerberg and owner of Twitter Elon Musk drifted into a confusing exchange of messages in June.
Musk wrote on Twitter that he was ready to shake hands with Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg posted a screenshot of the tweet and asked Musk to send his location. Musk responded to Zuckerberg with one word: Vegas Octagon.
Octagon is the term used by the American freestyle organization UFC. It refers to a fenced area where matches are played. The Vegas Octagon is located in the state of Nevada.
It was not clear from the messages what was causing friction between the billionaires, but Twitter users got excited Musk and Zuckerberg’s “fight”.
Twitter did not comment on the exchange of messages. Meta’s spokesman commented for the BBC in short, the messages speak for themselves.
Twitter’s update might benefit Meta
Over the weekend, Twitter started limiting how many tweets, or messages, from different accounts can be read during the day.
In addition, the night before Tuesday Finnish time, the social media platform announced that the TweetDeck application can only be accessed with a verified, i.e. paid, account in the future.
Musk has said that the restrictions will be taken because data would have been stolen from the platform and the system would have been “manipulated”.
Source: AFP