Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, attracts over 5 million users in just 4 hours, Mark Zuckerberg announces
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that over five million users signed up for Threads, the company's Twitter competitor, within four hours of its launch. Threads allows users to create accounts using their Instagram usernames and connect with individuals they already follow on Instagram.
In a remarkable feat, Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals that over five million users have swiftly signed up for Threads, the social media giant's new Twitter competitor, within a mere four hours of its launch.
During the much-anticipated debut of his new app, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, known by his handle "Zuck," took to the platform with a flurry of posts and replies while simultaneously announcing the staggering achievement of over five million user registrations for Threads, Meta's Twitter rival, within just four hours.
"Just passed 5 million sign ups in the first four hours," wrote the Meta CEO.
"Our vision is to take the best parts of Instagram and create a new experience for text, ideas, and discussing what's on your mind," Zuckerberg stated in an Instagram post.
Mark Zuckerberg had earlier disclosed that Threads garnered an impressive two million registrations within its first two hours. This Twitter rival app provides users with the convenience of creating accounts using their Instagram usernames and facilitates seamless connectivity with individuals they already follow on the visually-driven platform.
Meta's Instagram on Wednesday officially launched Threads, an app designed as a direct rival to Twitter and most serious threat yet to Elon Musk owned social-media site.
Threads is a new app enabling text, link sharing, and interaction through replies and reposts. Users can migrate their Instagram follower lists and account names, benefiting from the app's features
“There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion-plus people on it," Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday in a post on Threads. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will."
Adding to it Connor Hayes, a vice president of product, said that many of Instagram’s influential users have been asking the company to make a text-based app.
“Creators were telling us, ‘We want an alternative to what’s out there, and we don’t want to start over and have to build out a following from zero,’" Hayes said in an interview.
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