Threads: the Twitter competition already has a launch date

Goalthe company that owns Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced that This Thursday, July 6, it will launch its new application called Threads (threads) whose main objective is to compete with Twitter, the renowned platform that has been involved in more than one controversy after being acquired by Elon Musk.

“Threads is where communities come together to discuss everythingfrom the issues that concern us today to those that will be a trend tomorrow,” says the description of the application, which is already available in the US versions of the App Store on iOS and Google’s Play Store, although it cannot yet be downloaded to the devices. .

This new app from the tech giant is an alternative to Twitter and is based on the written text and the exchange of short messages. At the same time, like the little bird’s social network, it allows you to save publications in favorites, send them by private message and share or repost them (which would be retweeting).

As specified, Threads allows you to “connect directly with your favorite creators and others who love the same things, or build a following to share your ideas, opinions, and creativity with the world.”

“We are thinking of a Independent and decentralized social network to share written messages in real time”, they maintained in this regard from Meta through a statement.

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As it was told, Threads will be released this Thursday at american app stores and it is speculated that it will soon be available in the rest of the world.

The rushed launch of the new platform coincides conspicuously with the turbulent period Twitter has been going through since its ownership by Musk, who, among other things, restructured the company, fired to thousands of workers, impulse payment barriers and even limited the amount of tweets that can be read per day.

This latest measure was announced by the businessman over the weekend and limits users to read up to 800 tweets per day, a figure that rises to 8,000 for accounts that have subscribed to the verification service. The objective, as explained, is to prevent the developers of artificial intelligence models from using the data from the platform.

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