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Tom Pritchard

Instagram's Threads is launching tomorrow to take on Twitter — everything you need to know

Meta Threads logo on phone

Threads is coming to take on Twitter. If all the changes and restrictions happening at Twitter are getting too much to bear, you may be in luck. Instagram has a new Twitter competitor set to arrive on July 6. 

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter and started making sweeping and controversial changes, the topic of Twitter alternatives has been on a lot of peoples’ minds. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was working on its own micro-blogging rival back in March. In the following months we learned it would be called Threads, and would be officially part of Instagram — albeit in a separate app.

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