New York, Jul 6 (EFE).- The president of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, announced today that in the first seven hours after its launch there have been ten million downloads of his new social network for conversations Theads, with which he wants to do competition to Twitter.
“Ten million registrations in seven hours,” Zuckerberg reported in a message on his account on the new social network, in which he calls himself “Zuck”, three hours after announcing that after the first four hours the registration had been exceeded. number of 5 million subscribers.
10 million downloads in the first seven hours
The new social network, whose downloads began early on Wednesday, but with some technical problems, is destined to become a larger platform than Twitter over time, for which it needs to remain “friendly,” according to Zuckerberg.
“It will take some time (…) It should be a public conversation app with over a billion users,” Meta’s owner stated before launch.
The start of the new social network from Meta, a giant that also owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, occurred at 23:00 GMT this Wednesday with two major drawbacks: the lack of access from the countries of the European Union, apparently due to difficulties with EU data protection laws, and on Android phones.
The launch of Threads, a platform that had been in development for some time, seems to have been accelerated by Zuckerberg’s team in response to the restrictions announced by Twitter on the number of daily message reads and open content.
Twitter users are getting more and more irritated
Twitter users have been increasingly irritated by the lurch that the bird’s social network has been giving since billionaire Elon Musk bought the company last year, since he has imposed different formulas to try to make it profitable, such as charging for accounts verified, and now, limit their daily use to combat “bots”.
Since the launch of Threads was announced this week, the co-founder of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, and Musk himself, separately, alerted to alleged privacy problems in the new Instagram social network, which they said will collect all kinds of sensitive user data, including identity, state of health and physical shape, finances or contacts.
The application, which is linked to Instagram while maintaining the username of the social network for the photos and videos, has an interface very similar to that of Twitter, but simpler: the messages are grouped into two tabs, the “threads” tab. (such as Tweets) and “replies,” and messages can receive hearts, comments, and forwards, as well as be shared.
According to Meta, entertainment giants and the press such as Billboard, HBO, US public radio (NPR) or Netflix already had an account on Threads minutes after the launch of the new social network, which is available in a hundred countries.
Among the celebrities who have joined the new social network, according to Meta, are Shakira, the cook Gordon Ramsay and the Formula 1 driver Lando Norris.
