The president of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has assured that in the first seven hours after its launch there have been 10 million downloads. At the moment it is not available in the European Union or for Android phones.
the tech giant Goalowner of applications such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has launched its instant messaging application on Thursday Threads(threads, in English) with which wants to compete with Twitterand that, for the moment, it will not be available in the countries of the European Union (EU), apparently due to difficulties with the laws of protection of data of the EU, nor in Android phones.
The start of the new social network occurred at 23:00 GMT this Wednesday, earlier than previously announced. The platform had been in development for some time but Zuckerberg’s team has accelerated its release in response to the restrictions announced by Twitter on the number of daily message readings and open content.
Precisely, Zuckerberg himself has announced that in the first seven hours after its launch there have been 10 million downloads of Threads.
According to its creators, it is an application where “communities meet to discuss everything, from the topics that interest you today to what will be a trend tomorrow”, so you can share ideas, opinions and creativity through publications of text. Likewise, it allows users to follow and connect directly with their favorite creators, as well as with other users with whom they share tastes.
Threads has an interface very similar to that of Twitter and its operation is also the same. Although Threads is a completely independent platform, it is related to instagram. So much so, that to navigate through it, the same user account is used as in said social network. In fact, the same username and profile photo are used. Based on this, Threads has an option that allows users to automatically follow the same accounts that they previously followed on Instagram.
On the other hand, another of the characteristics of Threads is that it is an open space that can be connected to other decentralized social networks like Mastodon, since it will integrate the ActivityPub protocol, although not at the time of its release.
Source: Eitb
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