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Meta, a subsidiary of Facebook, is set to unveil a new app to compete with Twitter on Thursday, June 6.
Threads, the app, will be integrated with Instagram.
Screenshots show a dashboard that resembles Twitter. Threads is described as a “text-based conversation app” by Meta.
Meta said ‘Threads’ has been made available for pre-order on the Apple Store, and is expected to be linked to Instagram.
The company describes the new product as a “text-based conversation app”.
“Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what will be trending tomorrow,” the description of the app says On Apple Store.
The new Meta app is supposed to be a replica of the popular microblogging platform, Twitter, and its release coincides with Musk’s introduction of numerous new features.
The announcement comes months after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter Chairman Elon Musk pledged to compete in a cage fight.
“Thank goodness they’re so sanely run”, Mr Musk responded to a tweet about Threads, in an apparent fresh swipe at Mr. Zuckerberg.
Meanwhile, Twitter has announced that the popular user dashboard TweetDeck would be placed behind a paywall in 30 days.
Mr. Musk’s latest move is an attempt to persuade users to subscribe to Twitter’s subscription service, Twitter Blue.
The multibillionaire limited the quantity of tweets users could see on Saturday, claiming extreme “data scraping.”
According to Meta’s Threads app, it will be a free service with no constraints on how many postings a user may access.
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