The battle of the billionaires – Twitter’s Elon Musk against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — still has no date. But Musk promised today that the fight will be livestreamed on his social media “X” platform.
17.07.2023 - 23:55 / deadline.com
Threads is making a big change as it continues to grow exponentially as an alternative to Twitter. Instagram boss Adam Mosseri took to the micro-blogging platform to announce that they would be implementing rate limits to combat bots.
“Spam attacks have picked up so we’re going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to mean more unintentionally limiting active people (false positives),” Mosseri posted on Threads. “If you get caught up those protections let us know.”
Rate limits are what Elon Musk implemented at the beginning of July “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” At the time, Musk said the rate limits were only temporary at the extreme levels, but since then he has eased off and allowed users to view more tweets a day, particularly those users that are subscribed to Twitter Blue and “verified.”
After viewing limits were placed on Twitter, backlash ensued and Meta used the opportunity to launch its competing platform we now know as Threads. In less than a week, Threads had over 100M users sign up to the platform making a clear case that people were seeking an alternative to Twitter.
Threads makes it easy for users to sign up as all you need is an Instagram account. Usernames are transferred over and followers are alerted when someone has enabled their Threads profile.
Despite the viewing limits imposed on Threads users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s “very optimistic about how the Threads community is coming together.”
“Early growth was off the charts, but more importantly 10s of millions of people now come back daily. That’s way ahead of what we expected,” Zuckerberg shared on Monday, July 17.
He continued, “The focus for the rest of the year is
The battle of the billionaires – Twitter’s Elon Musk against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg — still has no date. But Musk promised today that the fight will be livestreamed on his social media “X” platform.
Elon Musk says his potential in-person fight with Mark Zuckerberg would be streamed on his social media site X, formerly known as Twitter.
Mark Zuckerberg has quite the appetite!The Facebook founder took to Threads — his latest social media platform — where he replied to a post from McDonald's asking if their followers wanted anything from the famous fast-food chain.«20 nuggets, a quarter pounder, large fries, Oreo McFlurry, apple pie, and maybe some side cheeseburgers for later?» Zuckerberg replied, giving followers a look at his huge Mickey D's order.MMA fighter, Mike Davis jokingly chastised Zuckerberg's order, reminding the tech CEO that he's currently in training for his reported fight with Elon Musk.«You’re in camp! No Mcdonalds
Mark Zuckerberg is revealing his McDonald’s order!
Meta CEO and Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg took time off from managing his social media empire to get a dose of some good ole’ Taylor Swift.
Meta’s revenue beat estimates in the second quarter, rising by 11% to $32 billion, as the company also touted investments in its Twitter rival, Threads, as well as in new AI products.
The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote for Thursday on whether to cite Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg with contempt of Congress. claiming that he has failed to comply with a subpoena.
Twitter is officially being rebranded as X and the logo has now changed on the website.
Elon Musk is making yet another change to his social media platform.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Twitter was experiencing unexplained technical problems Wednesday, as key features of the Elon Musk-owned social network appeared to be not working correctly. Problem reports with Twitter began spiking around 10:30 a.m. ET on July 12, according to uptime-monitoring service Downdetector. In the U.S., user-reported errors for Twitter’s website and app shot up to more than 7,100 complaints by 10:36 a.m. ET. Of the user reports, 50% were related to the Twitter; 43% were related to the website; and 7% were problems associated with the server connection, according to Downdetector. One of the main problems users reported was the inability to see an account’s tweets from their profile page, at least on the desktop (web) version of the Twitter service. According to Twitter’s API status monitoring page, all systems were operational as of Wednesday morning.
Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino is throwing a little shade at Threads after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced his platform had crossed 100 million signups in less than a week.
had 30 million users on Thursday, a number which has tripled less than 2 days later and can be verified by the numerical badges displayed on user acounts; those numbers are assigned in the order someone joined, with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg being user #1.But Threads, just one of the many new apps to compete directly with Twitter, has a huge advantage over other would-be Twitter killers: An existing infrastructure that can handle demand.Currently Threads is essentially an offshoot of Instagram. Indeed, the only way to sign up at the moment is download the app and sign in with your Instagram login.
Meta launched Threads this week which is their response to Twitter and in many ways both platforms want to host digital town squares. However, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is clearing things up and saying that the social network will not push topics about politics and hard news.
On Thursday, a lawyer for Elon Musk’s Twitter accused Meta of leveraging “trade secrets” to launch its Twitter competitor, Threads, which garnered more than 30 million sign ups in its first 24 hours of operation. Musk’s threats, however, did nothing to slow adoption of the new platform. In fact, user takeup increased.
Elon Musk is threatening to sue Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta over the launch of the company’s new social media platform Threads.
Things are getting feisty on social media!
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's plea for privacy raised eyebrows when they continued to publicise their every move.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The battle between Elon Musk’s Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta over the launch of Instagram’s Twitter rival Threads has taken a legal turn. On Wednesday, Meta’s Instagram debuted Threads, a text-focused social app designed to piggyback off Instagram’s infrastructure and user base. The app had more than 30 million sign-ups as of Thursday morning, according to Zuckerberg. In a July 5 cease-and-desist letter addressed to Meta CEO Zuckerberg, a lawyer representing Twitter said that Musk’s company had “serious concerns” that Meta “has engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.” The letter said that “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”
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