Company Goalowner of Facebookwill start This Thursday, July 6, a new application called Threads (Threads, in English) is designed to compete with Twitter. While users’ hopes are that it will serve as a solution to the much-abused Twitter, it seems that the surprise with which Threads arrives will not please many.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and the owner of that social network, Elon Musk, pointed out that Threads, the new online conversation platform that Meta wants to launch next Thursday, will collect all kinds of user data.

The new Meta application is already available in application stores such as the Apple Store and the Play Store, in early access mode, and the privacy terms can be consulted, which caught the attention of the two former CEOs of Twitter.

Under that policy Threads may collect identity, health and fitness, financial, browsing history, purchase, location, contact, and “sensitive information” data from the useramong other data.

Total, the data belongs to about 14 categories and “may be collected and linked to your identity”, though Twitter isn’t far behind as it pulls data from 10 categories, though it doesn’t include any health, financial, shopping or sensitive information.

Dorsey posted the privacy terms for Threads on his Twitter account with a tongue-in-cheek message: “All your Threads belong to us,” to which Musk responded with a “Yes” statement.

Musk also ironically responded to a user who reiterated that Meta’s idea was to create a “healthily managed” social network, an executive reported to a media outlet, to which the billionaire remarked, “Thank God they are managed so wisely.”

According to the description in the app stores, Threads aims to be the “place where communities come together to talk about everything from the topics that matter to you today to the topics that will be trending tomorrow”, where you can connect with creators and build followers. with whom to “share ideas, opinions and creativity”.

Described by Apple as “the Instagram app for text conversations”, it is set to launch in the US on Thursday.

On the other hand, the “Bluesky” project, led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, and accessible by invitation, it also tries to stand out with a more decentralized approach.

Angry about changes on Twitter

Earlier this month, Elon Musk sparked outrage among Twitter users by announcing that the platform was going to limit the number of messages people could read per day.

The limit for the vast majority of users not paying for the subscription was 1,000 daily tweets.

The purported purpose of this measure is to prevent third-party companies, especially artificial intelligence model developers, from using the data dumped on the platform.