A brand new social media app from the team behind Facebook and WhatsApp has launched today and is already proving to be a massive hit. Threads, which has been created by Meta to rival Twitter, has already hit over 5 million downloads just hours after it launched on the Apple and Google apps stores.
"Just passed 5 million sign ups in the first four hours," Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg confirmed. You can follow the Mirror on Threads.
Linked to Instagram, Threads allows users to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five minutes of video and links, as well as pictures. It's being advertised as a friendly place where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics they care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow.
