Meta is taking on Twitter with a new app. Instagram today announced the anticipated launch of its text-based social networking app, Threads, which allows Instagram users to authenticate with their existing credentials to post short updates, including text up to 500 characters; links; photos; and videos up to 5 minutes in length. At launch, Threads is available on iOS and Android in 100 countries...
More than 10 million people have signed up to Twitter rival Threads in its first few hours, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has claimed.Threads, a “text-based conversation app”, is linked to Meta-owned Instagram and went live at midnight on Thursday.Posting on the app under the username Zuck and using a mind-blown emoji, Zuckerberg said: “10 million sign up in seven hours...
The new social media app set to be launched by Facebook’s owner Meta as the “first credible threat” to Twitter is not yet appearing in some app stores in Europe.Threads, described as a “text-based conversation app”, will be linked to Meta-owned Instagram and go live on Thursday.Users in the US and UK have already been offered a preorder option, but some app stores in...