Launch of social media platform puts Mark Zuckerberg in direct competition with Elon Musk.
Meta's new app benefits from its billion-plus Instagram followers that give it a huge shot in the arm.
Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday officially launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, after first confirming its plans for the app just three months ago.
The app is pretty similar to Twitter, but it's missing a key feature: a feed that only includes posts from people you follow.
Meta already has more than 3 billion users across its stable of apps (which include Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp), and is making it easy for its existing ...
New Meta app may well provide Twitter with the first serious competition it has had for some time.
Meta's highly anticipated Twitter alternative must work hard to attract and reassure brands that it is a safe space to operate and advertise.
Its owner Elon Musk says "competition is fine, cheating is not" a day after the rival app launches.
Its owner Elon Musk says "competition is fine, cheating is not" a day after the rival app launches.
Meta is holding back on launching the platform in the European Union “because of upcoming regulatory uncertainty,” spokesperson Matt Pollard told POLITICO.
Meta's microblogging app is intuitive, has already been downloaded by millions of people, and has other advantages over Twitter's would-be rivals.
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Twitter alleges Meta hired former employees of the blogging platform and tapped trade secrets to develop new Threads service.
Lawyer's letter to Mark Zuckerberg outlines concerns that Meta has engaged in “unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets”
Meta's Twitter alternative promises that it will work with decentralized platforms, giving you greater control of your data. You can hold the company to ...
Threads, an Instagram app, has arrived early. Learn how to get the Threads app, who is on it already, and what personal data it will use.
In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter's trade ...
Warning to Mark Zuckerberg comes as new users top 30m on first day of message service.
Twitter has accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who 'had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential ...