A new app billed as a rival to Twitter has been launched. Threads, created by Facebook and Instagram owners Meta, went live in the UK at midnight on Thursday.
It is linked to Instagram but allows users to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five minutes of video and links, as well as pictures. Posting on the app, Mark Zuckerberg said there had been two million sign-ups for the app in just two hours.
The new app is the latest chapter in the rivalry between Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October. In a reply to MMA fighter Mark Davis, Mr Zuckerberg said: “I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”
