{"id":10697,"date":"2023-07-11T11:37:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T09:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/with-100-million-users-and-counting-is-threads-is-on-course-to-finish-off-twitter\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T09:37:45","slug":"with-100-million-users-and-counting-is-threads-is-on-course-to-finish-off-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/with-100-million-users-and-counting-is-threads-is-on-course-to-finish-off-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"With 100 million users and counting, is Threads is on course to finish off Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk\u2019s platform in the dust quite yet<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.editorial.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFo11SPMvm9ONAti2JcHBqUgcduObToxycReEYHcTAh6nov_u_7l464yKkl5CZpPeg-CqG3ueb-8UiDZ4dOkhK_xu6BZysaGtGOA-w2_0KTqLsMBLqZrcGelEg-7T5C6DRfMSsX1Wcyrv2RlHjbzIGx0ePxMD7meIXmznkqCFxtrflV_YvxDV9cqXgzdq7c2-9qYTW0MyIMCG7p9sc7wIKCg\/3ha\/N7031ZxvS8Cv2AmB8PHP-g\/h27\/towm4HqYM1UtQe3kzAkaoAWT_zh9HyZuTvPyJCk6JeE\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It feels as if the death of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated since Elon Musk took ownership of the company. Indeed, it\u2019s not Musk, but Meta\u2019s launch of Threads \u2013 which has 100 million-plus users in a matter of days \u2013 that could be the biggest threat to Twitter at present. Threads, though, appears to be a very different social media beast. For starters, Meta\u2019s response to Twitter is accessed through your Instagram account, meaning you can automatically follow the accounts you already follow on Instagram. And though it looks quite similar to Twitter, with short text-based posts, it differs in key ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friendly and news-free<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/11\/techscape-meta-threads-twitter\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2bf2c242664813b966592ec9efdb7681de425207\/0_270_4000_2401\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=39cac7bae3385de2762e20ec2ea99047\" title=\"With 100 million users and counting, is Threads is on course to finish off Twitter?\" \/>Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk\u2019s platform in the dust quite yet<br \/>\n\u2022 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here<br \/>\nIt feels as if the death of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated since Elon Musk took ownership of the company. Indeed, it\u2019s not Musk, but Meta\u2019s launch of Threads \u2013 which has 100 million-plus users in a matter of days \u2013 that could be the biggest threat to Twitter at present. Threads, though, appears to be a very different social media beast. For starters, Meta\u2019s response to Twitter is accessed through your Instagram account, meaning you can automatically follow the accounts you already follow on Instagram. And though it looks quite similar to Twitter, with short text-based posts, it differs in key ways.<br \/>\nFriendly and news-free Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta wants its new rival to be a friendly, news-free space. But with missing features, it might not leave Elon Musk\u2019s platform in the dust quite yet \u2022 Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up for the full article here It feels as if the death of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated since &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/11\/with-100-million-users-and-counting-is-threads-is-on-course-to-finish-off-twitter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">With 100 million users and counting, is Threads is on course to finish off Twitter?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}