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Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage
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Meta platforms restored after hour-long global outage

Meta Platforms, the parent company of popular social media apps Instagram and Facebook, as well as messaging app WhatsApp and Twitter competitor, Threads, is reportedly back after a global outage. The platform experienced a temporary outage on Monday, affecting thousands of users. According to Downdetector.com, the outage lasted over an hour and impacted approximately 14,000 […]

Threads introduces rate limit to curb spam attacks
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Meta to label government account on Threads

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has revealed its plans to label government-affiliated accounts on its newly launched Twitter-like platform, Threads, according to an executive’s statement during an Australian inquiry on foreign interference. Meta’s head of public policy for Australia, Josh Machin, expressed the company’s intentions to implement labels for state-affiliated media […]

Meta's Threads hits 175m monthly users amid challenges
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Threads dethrones ChatGPT, reaches 100m users in five days

ChatGPT achieved a previously unheard-of rate of growth of reaching 100 million users in just two months, however since its launch on July 6, Threads has racked up a staggering 100 million users in only five days, according to data tracking company Quiver Quantitative. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, said that the response from users […]

Meta's Twitter-like Threads hits 100m users in five days
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Meta’s Twitter-like Threads hits 100m users in five days

    More than 100 million users have downloaded the Threads app, which Instagram released as a Twitter rival, in less than five days. According to data tracking websites Monday, this seea Thread overtake CHATGBT’s records of the fastest growing users. While ChatGPT took two months and TikTok took nine months to gain 100 million […]

Meta's Threads hits 175m monthly users amid challenges
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Threads user accuses Zuckerberg of censoring anti-LGBTQ posts

The new Threads app from Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for allegedly restricting users who disagree with gender ideology and making false claims. Since the app’s launch earlier last week, there has been outrage on Twitter, a competitor network, over reports that content challenging gender ideas is being removed. In order to compete with […]

Meta’s Threads closes in on X with 400m monthly users
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Threads surpasses 50 million users

Threads, the highly anticipated “Twitter Killer” app from Meta, has amassed an astonishing 50 million users within a mere 24 hours of its launch. The text-based microblogging service, intricately tied to Meta’s popular photo and video-sharing platform, Instagram, has seen an unprecedented surge in registrations. While Meta’s leveraging of its massive user base of over […]

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app
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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app

Twitter has threatened to sue Meta for infringing on Twitter’s “intellectual property rights” with its new Threads app, which Mark Zuckerberg has openly referred to as a competitor. A lawyer for Twitter stated in a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which was originally published by the news outlet Semafor, that the firm “has serious concerns […]

Zuckerberg, Meta directors settle $8bn privacy lawsuit ahead of testimony
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Meta to consider monetizing Threads – Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, stated on Thursday that Meta would consider making money from the new Twitter rival, Threads. He claimed that while Meta is now focusing on gaining more users for the new microblogging software, the business will consider monetizing it after its user base reaches one billion. This was expressed by Zuckerberg […]

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Threads: Twitter can never be duplicated – CEO

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has stated that while Twitter is “often imitated,” its community “can never be duplicated.” She made this statement after Mark Zuckerberg announced that 30 million users had joined the newly launched Threads app on just the first day.  He positioned the app as a “friendly” competitor to Twitter, which Elon Musk […]

Threads hits 30 million users
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Threads hits 30 million users

Meta’s newly launched Threads app garnered a staggering 30 million users on its very first day, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s chief. Positioned as a “friendly” alternative to Twitter, Threads aims to attract disgruntled Twitter users following the platform’s acquisition by Elon Musk. Industry experts believe that Threads has the potential to entice users […]

Five things to know about Meta's Twitter-like App Threads
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Five things to know about Meta’s Twitter-like App Threads

The parent company of Instagram, Meta, recently introduced Threads, a text-based conversation app aimed at competing with Twitter. As users seek alternatives to Twitter’s evolving restrictions, Threads offers a platform where users can engage in real-time conversations while integrating seamlessly with their existing Instagram accounts. Here are five key things to know about Meta’s new […]

Meta's Twitter-like Threads app hits 10m signups in 24 hours
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Meta’s Twitter-like Threads app hits 10m signups in 24 hours

Meta’s new Twitter clone, Threads, is experiencing a remarkable surge in signups on its first day. Within a span of seven hours since its launch, Threads has surpassed the impressive milestone of 10 million signups. This comes after Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, had previously announced that 5 million users had signed up within the first […]