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Meta takes aim at Twitter with Threads app, millions join

www.reuters.com Meta takes aim at Twitter with Threads app, millions join

Those quick to join the new platform included celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez as well as prominent politicians such as Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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It’s garbage and people love it. 🐑
- Let people enjoy new things.
  
  It’s meta. It was ruined in the conception stage. No way were there good actors at play at any point in this process.
- Lowkey it's pretty garbage lol.
  
  But it's by Facebook and a lot of people are already joining it. I feel like if anyone can compete with twitter it'll be them (even though I genuinely despite Zuck)
  
  It’s garbage and people will love it.
"Fresh out of the frying pan and into the fire" to quote Jay-Z
- meta is.. social media’s number one supplier?
- Pretty sure that was the name of the 6th chapter of The Hobbit but it's there has been similar idioms around for a long long time.
Millions joined? Or millions of Facebook/Instagram accounts were imported?
- Probably imported, but that doesn't make them less real. The ease of transferring accounts will be a major advantage for this platform.
My guess is that a good part of those people are just trying to reserve a good username and then will sit on it.
Facebook/meta makes everything terrible.
Wow. Was not expecting growth so rapidly.

I don't like Meta or Twitter, but I am rooting for Meta in this battle. Just sick of Musk's antics.

At any rate, I've got my popcorn ready.

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