The CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg says more than 10million people have signed up his new Twitter-like social media platform ‘Threads’ within the first few hours of its launch. The new app went live on Apple and Android App stores in about 100 countries at about 2300hrs GMT yesterday and is expected to run with no adds for now, but the release han being delayed in Europe over data privacy policy.
Threads is now a new challenger to Twitter in the social media market which has being considered to swoop the market but has not yet displaced twitter.
Zuckerberg wrote on his threads handle account today, “10 million sign-ups in seven hours”.
It was learned that celebrities like Jennifer Lopez, Shekira and Hugh Jackman have already signed up for threads including media house like Washington post and the Economic post.
Though others considers Zuckerberg and Elon Musk as now bitter rivals and have even considered ironing it out in a cage fight.
In his first tweet in over a decade, Zuckerberg posted a Spiderman pointing at another Spiderman meme suggesting his threads to that of Twitter.
On his threads handle, the Meta CEO wrote, “It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully, we will.”
Twitter has sometime claimed it has daily users of over 200 million.
IT experts and others are seeing threads as a spin of instagram and the CEO revealed he is targeting about 2billion users in the next few years to utilise the platform, though admitted that is not going to be easy but will surely get there being a new platform entirely.
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri told users that Threads was intended to build “an open and friendly platform for conversations.”
He said, “The best thing you can do if you want that too is be kind”.
Zuckerberg is widely believed to be taking advantage of Musk’s frenzied ownership of Twitter to push out the new alternative product into market, which Meta hopes will become the go-to platform for celebrities, companies and politicians.
Commenting on Substack, a financial strategic analyst, Brain Wiser said, “It’s as simple as that: if an Instagram user with a large number of followers such as Kardashian or a Bieber or a Messi begins posting on Threads regularly, a new platform could quickly thrive,”
Also an analyst Jasmine Engberg from insider intelligence said “to make it as big as Twitter.” Said thread only needs one out four Instagram monthly users.
She added, “Twitter users are desperate for an alternative, and Musk has given Zuckerberg an opening,”
Since the taking over of twitter by Elon Musk, the platform has seen a lot of transformations, especially content moderation drastically reduced a singular decision some celebrities were not comfortable with.
Also Musk decision that access to its TweetDeck product – which allows users to view a fast flow of tweets at once – would be for paying customers only.
