Mark Zuckerberg’s new “Twitter killer” app Threads has officially arrived. And the CEO of its mum or dad firm Meta took no time to make use of it as a chance to take a jab on the social media platform owned by his enterprise rival Elon Musk.
Zuckerberg hadn’t tweeted since January 18, 2012, at which era he requested individuals to “inform your congressmen you need them to be pro-internet.” However on Wednesday, as quickly as Threads launched, he posted a preferred Spider-Man meme through which two similar Spidermen are pointing at one another.
He did not embody a caption – however no phrases have been wanted.
Zuckerberg and Musk have grown to be social media enterprise rivals, with the 2 going as far as to agree to fight in a cage match. The meme is seemingly a reference to Threads’ launch, because the app was designed to be a direct competitor with Twitter.
“Our imaginative and prescient is to take the perfect elements of Instagram and create a brand new expertise for textual content, concepts, and discussing what’s in your thoughts,” Zuckerberg stated in an Instagram post on Wednesday. “I believe the world wants this type of pleasant neighborhood, and I am grateful to all of you who’re a part of Threads from day one.”
The platform is visually similar to Twitter, with individuals posting standing updates that may be favored, commented on, reposted and shared.
“Whether or not you are a creator or an off-the-cuff poster, Threads gives a brand new, separate house for real-time updates and public conversations,” Meta’s press release about its launch says. “…Our imaginative and prescient with Threads is to take what Instagram does finest and broaden that to textual content, making a optimistic and artistic house to specific your concepts.”
It hasn’t taken lengthy for many individuals to hitch the platform. Inside the first few hours of its launch, Zuckerberg stated that more than 10 million people had signed up, although his final aim is considerably increased.
“It will take a while, however I believe there must be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ individuals on it,” he stated on Threads. “Twitter has had the chance to do that however hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we’ll.”
Twitter had about 368 million monthly active users as of December, in line with Statista, however the web site says that quantity is anticipated to drop by about 5% by 2024.
