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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

Zuckerberg uses Threads to say Twitter has missed its chance

Meta's Threads app on smartphone
Mark Zuckerberg said Twitter had had the chance to become a ‘mega app’, but ‘hasn’t nailed it’. Photograph: Mateusz Słodkowski/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

Mark Zuckerberg has taken a swipe at Elon Musk’s Twitter as his competitor to the platform, Threads, reached 30m sign-ups less than 24 hours after launching.

The chief executive and founder of Meta used his new Threads account to say Twitter had not “nailed” its opportunity to become a mega app and implied that it had underachieved because of the amount of hostility on the microblogging platform.

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