Wires is the latest app Goal making waves among users of social networks. This platform has less than a week of release and it already is more than 100 million userswho, motivated by curiosity or by the idea of ​​​​belonging to another social network, did not take long to register.

But the apps It’s not a new concept and neither is the name. Threads translates to “threads” in Spanish, that is, what long posts on Twitter are commonly referred to as whose threads they unravel. This social network was founded in 2006 and is still popular despite the controversies surrounding the new owner’s decisions. Elon Musk.

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Since Musk took control of Twitter, his future seems uncertain as a large number of users were unhappy with the changes made by the tycoon. Mark Zuckerberg saw an opportunity to attract users fleeing Twitter and dared to imitate the concept apps in threads.

Threads let you share statuses with a profile’s followers, which can be like Instagram, works almost the same way Twitter does. But there are some differences and similarities between both social networks that make them unique.

This is how Twitter and Threads look the same

Composite of two screenshots from Elon Musk’s and Mark Zuckerberg’s Twitter accounts on Threads, his company Meta’s new “microblogging” social network. Photo: EFE/Twitter/Thread Photo: EFE

This is how Twitter and Threads differ