Meta’s new Threads app has garnered greater than 30 million downloads within the 18 hours since its launch on Thursday. Dubbed because the Twitter-killer, Threads app permits customers to share textual content, and hyperlinks, and have interaction in conversations by replying to or reposting messages from fellow customers.
Reuters, reported that Threads was the highest free app on Apple’s App Retailer within the UK and US on Thursday. In the meantime, Threads might have change into essentially the most quickly downloaded app ever and will surpass over 100 million customers within the subsequent two months, New York Instances reported.
Threads at the moment permits customers to share posts with upto 500 characters and movies of upto 5 minutes. The Meta-backed app additionally lacks many vital functionalities current in Twitter like hashtags, key phrases, direct messages and a desktop model.
Explaining the thought course of behind the Threads app, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg famous in a publish, “There needs to be a public conversations app with 1 billion individuals on it. Twitter has had the chance to do that however hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we’ll,”
(With inputs from companies)
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Up to date: 07 Jul 2023, 06:44 AM IST