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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

TechScape: With 100 million users, is Threads on course to finish off Twitter?

The Threads app in front of the Twitter logo.
Threads, a very different social beast to Twitter. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

It feels as if the death of Twitter has been greatly exaggerated since Elon Musk took ownership of the company. Indeed, it’s not Musk, but Meta’s launch of Threads – which has 100 million-plus users in a matter of days – that could be the biggest threat to Twitter at present. Threads, though, appears to be a very different social media beast. For starters, Meta’s response to Twitter is accessed through your Instagram account, meaning you can automatically follow the accounts you already follow on Instagram. And though it looks quite similar to Twitter, with short text-based posts, it differs in key ways.

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