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MrBeast' Donaldson, renowned YouTuber and social media personality has become the first individual to amass over a million followers on Threads, the newly-launched Twitter competitor developed by Meta. The launch of this new app attracted millions of users within hours of its release. Notably, Mark Zuckerberg himself broke an eleven-year Twitter silence to endorse the platform. Impressively, MrBeast seems to have effortlessly eclipsed even the Meta CEO, in terms of follower count on Threads. He swiftly surpassed Zuckerberg after joining the platform, boasting a count well above 2 million, while the Meta CEO trails closely behind at above 1.5 million. The extraordinary feat of being the first person to achieve a million followers on Threads caught the attention of the prestigious Guinness World Records, prompting them to acknowledge the accomplishment on their social media channels. They even shared a brief clip on Twitter, capturing the exact moment MrBeast reached the milestone.

Meta's Threads racked up more than 30 million sign-ups within about 18 hours of its launch, emerging as the first real threat to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, as it took advantage of its access to billions of Instagram users and a similar look to that of its rival. Dubbed as the «Twitter-Killer», Threads was the top free app on Apple's App Store in the UK and the U.S. on Thursday.

Elon Musk, Musk took to Twitter and responded to different threads with jabs directed at Mark Zuckerberg. In response to DogeDesigner's tweet suggesting that Meta's new app logo resembles a tapeworm, Musk humorously replied, "Metaphorically too." Meanwhile, a username Enrique, said, "no following tab on threads? uninstalled." Musk replied, by saying, “A closed source, algorithm-only system means that manipulation of what information people see is essentially undetectable." Meanwhile, Twitter responded on Thursday by threatening to sue Meta, according to the publication Semafor, citing a letter delivered to Zuckerberg by a lawyer for Twitter.

Elon Musk commented on the matter, tweeted, "Competition is fine, cheating is not." Threads, an Instagram app that facilitates real-time public conversations, experienced extraordinary success shortly after its launch. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that within just two hours of its release, more than two million people had downloaded the app.

New York Times reported. Threads currently allows users to share posts with upto 500 characters and videos of upto 5 minutes.

Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta's photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries — including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan. Despite some early glitches, 30 million people had signed up before noon on Thursday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Threads.

In a recent tweet, Elon Musk has broken his silence on Meta's Twitter competitor Threads after the news of his lawyers sending a cease and desist letter to Mark Zuckerberg started spreading online. The new app has seen a very successful launch, as Zuckerberg has revealed that more than ten million users signed up within the first seven hours, dwarfing the launch of some other popular platforms. Earlier Thursday, news portal Semafor reported that Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta Platforms over its new, text-based app called Threads, citing a letter sent to Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro.

Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent's CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro. «Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,» Spiro wrote in the letter.

By Aditya Soni

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram officially unveiled Threads, an app designed as a direct rival to Twitter, launching the most serious threat yet to Elon Musk’s struggling social-media site. On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others. The app will let users port over their existing follower lists and account names from Instagram, Meta’s photo and video-sharing app that counts major brands, celebrities and creators among its more than 2 billion users.

Meta, the company behind social media giants Facebook and Instagram, has launched its new microblogging platform Threads.What is Threads? The new app bears a striking resemblance to Twitter, allowing users to post text, images, or videos, as well as like, share, or repost content. Threads accounts are synched to Instagram at the outset, allowing users to keep their usernames and retain followers. Posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to square off with rival billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk, but not necessarily in a supposed cage match the two tech titans have been teasing about as of late.

Mark Zuckerberg-led Meta launched a new social media app on Thursday, sparking a download frenzy. The microblogging platform - named Threads - bears a striking resemblance to Elon Musk-led Twitter and has so far seen more than 10 million downloads in less than seven hours.

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If you’re wondering what it’s like to use the new Threads app, just close your eyes and picture Twitter but with a lot less Elon Musk—and that’s exactly the point. Meta—owner of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp—on Wednesday launched its latest service, called Threads. While linked to Instagram (you even need an Instagram account to sign up for Threads), the new app’s primary focus is sharing short snippets of text.

Threads is brilliant. Twitter is done.

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) launched Threads, a direct competitor to Twitter, on Wednesday. The new service attracted millions of users in a matter of hours. META CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the app attracted 10 million sign-ups in seven hours.

Investing.com — Minutes from the Federal Reserve's latest meeting fuel expectations that the central bank will likely hike interest rates at its July gathering. Elsewhere, Meta launches its new social media platform Threads as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg takes aim at Elon Musk's Twitter, while Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen heads to China in a bid to ease tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Instagram’s much-hyped new text-based Twitter-killer app, Threads, was finally unveiled on Thursday and it looks a lot like its competitor, Twitter! In the ever-evolving landscape of social networking platforms, the emergence of Instagram's Threads app poses a significant challenge to Twitter's long-standing dominance. The app is the latest in line of competitors, such as Bluesky and Donald Trump's Truth Social that have aimed to provide an alternative digital space for conversation besides Twitter. While Twitter revolutionised real-time updates and concise communication, Threads aims to create a more intimate messaging experience, allowing users to share personal moments exclusively with close friends. Let's delve into the key features, advantages, and limitations of both platforms.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has officially unveiled Threads, a text-based app developed by the team at Instagram. Considered the most formidable threat to Twitter, Threads aims to provide users with an open and friendly public space for conversation. The app allows individuals to share posts of up to 500 characters, fostering a new experience for text-based interactions.

Let the battle begin. Facebook parent Meta Platforms on Wednesday launched Threads, a stand-alone microblogging app that takes direct aim at Twitter as user unrest on that platform has grown since Elon Musk took the company over in October.