Meta, the owner of Facebook, is set to launch a new app called Threads this week, aiming to compete with Twitter. The app, which will be integrated with Instagram, is currently available for pre-order on the Apple App Store and will officially go live on Thursday. Described as a “text-based conversation app… where communities come together,” Threads represents the latest development in the ongoing rivalry between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter in October.
In a recent viral exchange on social media, the two high-profile billionaires agreed to take each other on in a cage fight. Now, with the release of Threads, their competition takes a digital turn. Meanwhile, Twitter made an announcement regarding the future accessibility of TweetDeck, its application that allows users to manage multiple feeds and searches.
According to a tweet from Twitter Support on Monday evening, TweetDeck will only be accessible to verified users in 30 days, limiting its availability. The tweet also mentioned that a new version of TweetDeck has been released, accompanied by instructions for updating the application. This announcement follows Elon Musk’s statement two days earlier, revealing that users would now face restrictions on reading posts. Initially limited to 600 posts per day, the limit was later increased to 1,000 on Saturday.
These limitations imposed by Musk were explained as measures to combat excessive data scraping and system manipulation. However, such restrictions could potentially lead users to be temporarily locked out of Twitter if they scroll through several hundred tweets in a day. Notably, verified users, who have either subscribed to Twitter Blue or are considered “notable,” have greater privileges. Initially restricted to 6,000 posts daily, they can now read up to 10,000 posts after the recent changes.
Youtuber Jonny Keeley explains:
