Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, not too long ago made a comment about Mark Zuckerberg’s new app, Threads, referring to it as a “Twitter clone”. The remark was made on July 6, when Dorsey tweeted, “We needed flying automobiles, as an alternative we received 7 Twitter clones.”
Twitter’s authorized representatives earlier despatched a letter to Meta, the mother or father firm of Fb, on July 5. Within the letter, Twitter accused Meta of utilising commerce secrets and techniques from former Twitter workers to develop Threads. Moreover, Twitter requested Meta to protect inner paperwork related to the continuing dispute between the 2 firms. This data was initially reported by Semafor.
Twitter proprietor Elon Musk commented on the matter, tweeted, “Competitors is ok, dishonest will not be.”
Threads, an Instagram app that facilitates real-time public conversations, skilled extraordinary success shortly after its launch.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced that inside simply two hours of its launch, greater than two million folks had downloaded the app. The variety of downloads quickly escalated, reaching 5 million inside 4 hours and surpassing 10 million by the tip of the day. By the next morning, Threads had been downloaded over 30 million occasions.
In lower than 24 hours, Threads emerged because the fastest-growing app ever, positioning itself as a possible competitor to Twitter. It outpaced ChatGPT, a chatbot developed by OpenAI, which achieved a million downloads in its first 5 days.
In accordance with Similarweb, an analytics agency, Threads is projected to surpass 100 million customers inside two months, a milestone beforehand attained solely by ChatGPT.
Notably, influential Twitter customers, together with Ellen DeGeneres, Invoice Gates, Shakira and Oprah Winfrey, promptly joined Threads and started sharing posts. The platform skilled a celebratory ambiance as customers exchanged welcome messages and expressed pleasure about partaking with each other’s content material. At one level, the app confronted non permanent instability as a result of overwhelming inflow of customers.
