The “Twitter Killer” has launched. Threads are already running, Zuckerberg is aiming for a billion users

In the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Meta (the owner of Facebook) launched its competition for . The service, taken over by last autumn, is in trouble. The platform, bought for USD 44 billion, is now worth only a third of that amount. Mark Zuckerberg sensed an opportunity and launched a service similar to Twitter. And he’s not even going to hide it, because he posted there his first post in 11 years, a popular meme in which two Spider-men point at each other

So far, the application is not available in Poland. On the home page, we only see the new platform’s “@” logo circulating, with no sign-up option. Attempting to interact ends with the message “Threads is not yet available in your region. Until then, you can continue to view content.” It is not known when the portal will be launched in our country. It is currently available in 100 countries.

Facebook’s response to Instagram has begun.

Threads allows you to write messages up to 500 characters long, share photos, links and videos up to 5 minutes. However, you cannot send private messages to other users of the platform. Just like on Twitter, you can approve a post with the heart button, and replies to posts appear in threads. , no ads have been found on the portal so far.

We log in to Threads using Instagram, but the username can be adapted to the new portal. You can also automatically follow accounts we already follow on . Threads also has blue badges to indicate a verified account. They are received by those profiles that have already received it on Instagram.

Threads.net photo by KaK

Interestingly, Threads provides integration with other Twitter competitors that started gaining popularity after Musk acquired the company. “Soon you will be able to follow and interact with users on other federiveverse platforms such as Mastodon. They can also find other users on Threads using their full usernames, such as @zuck@threads.net.” – we read on the portal, after clicking the gray threads.net icon next to the profile names.

Threads are very popular

Unfortunately, the other entries of the Meta boss are not displayed, there is a problem with their loading. in response to whether Threads will be bigger than Twitter, he replied that the world should have a public conversation app with a billion users. In his opinion, the key to success will be maintaining a user-friendly platform.