Mark Zuckerberg first announced that Threads, Meta’s Instagram-linked, text-based, aspirationally decentralized alternative to Twitter, would arrive on Thursday morning. So, naturally, the official rollout actually occurred Wednesday evening, with the surprise drop leading a bunch of users to sign up for the gazillionth Twitter clone they’d tried out since Elon Musk took over Twitter last October and proceeded to make …
Washington CNN — Mark Zuckerberg has tried for years to take on Twitter. Meta launched Threads, which the company describes as a “text-based conversation app” and whose promotional screenshots resemble Twitter’s layout, on Thursday. Poised to benefit are rivals including Meta’s Threads; the decentralized social network Mastodon, which according to its creator saw a spike in signups over the weekend; …