According to the statement made by Instagram Threads In Turkey as of tomorrow, April 29th is being closed for use.
In this regard, the statement made by the company is as follows: It was said: “According to the decision of the Competition Authority (RK), Threads will not be available to people in Turkey as of April 29, 2024. This; This means that people in Turkey cannot download the Threads application, access Threads from threads.net, create a Threads profile or use existing Threads profiles.. If you have created a Threads profile and you are in Turkey, your profile will be frozen but not deleted. When your profile is deactivated, your profile and its contents (e.g. posts, your interactions with other posts) will not be shown to you or other people on the platform. For now, you will not be able to reactivate your profile. Please note that this will not affect your Instagram account and your account’s data. Even if your profile is frozen, you can download a copy of your platform information at any time. You can also choose to delete your profile on the platform. Note: If you have created more than one Threads profile, go to threads.net to manage your additional profiles. “We are working to bring the platform back to Turkey soon.”
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An interim injunction had recently been imposed on Meta. In this regard, the Competition Authority officially states the following: had conveyed: “META Platforms, Inc. An interim injunction decision was issued against (META) in the investigation initiated on suspicion of abusing its dominant position by linking Threads and Instagram applications (Interim Injunction Decision). META combines the data of users who create Threads profiles based on their Instagram accounts without providing users with a confirmation option; It was evaluated that it would cause irreparable damage until the investigation was completed.
- – Since META has been operating in the market for many years, it has a comprehensive and detailed data accumulation,
- -The size and diversity of META’s user base makes META services attractive for advertisers,
- -This situation allows META to allocate more resources for service development and makes it difficult for competitors to access advertisers and therefore financial resources, and in this context, META’s activities create an entry barrier in the market,
- -In addition, it was determined that META operates as an ecosystem with the basic services and related services it offers, and this enables META to transfer the power and knowledge it gains from each service to another service and increases its market power.
Within the framework of current findings; “It has been decided to take temporary measures to prevent data merging behavior that may occur as a result of the data transfer mechanism between Instagram and Threads.”