Threads, Meta's rival to the social network formerly known as Twitter, could get its most important update as soon as this week. The web-based version of the service is in testing and could be days away from launch.
I hope so, because the initial excitement over Threads has definitely abated – and I think a big part of that is because right now it's phone-only. That's a problem for a words-based social network because most of the people who write good words on the internet do so on computers – so for example Twitter's success was in part due to thousands of people bored at work or goofing off at home, posting via the web.
