While it’s too soon to know if Threads’ early success will translate in the long term, it has succeeded in utterly dominating Twitter in its first week.
Twitter has published an update on how its "Freedom of Speech Not Reach" moderation approach is working, and according to the company, it has seen some encouraging results.
Elon Musk has a new AI company. A website has appeared for xAI, which will embark on the self-described mission to “understand the true nature of the universe.” The announcement comes after filing documents revealed the existence of a company called “X.AI Corp” earlier this year. Musk also said in an April interview that he wanted to start a venture for “maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe” that “hopefully does more good than harm.”
Meta made it super easy for people to sign up to its new app Threads through Instagram. That helped the Twitter competitor reach more than 100 million sign ups in just a couple of days.
While Twitter encountered many self-inflicted wounds this week, users jumped to Blue Sky and Mastodon. Then Meta decided it was a fine time to drop its Twitter copycat, Threads.
Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over the new Threads app. Twitter accused Meta of poaching employees and "systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Meta's rival to Twitter called Threads, an Instagram app is set to launch tomorrow in the US and UK, but it may not come to the rest of Europe anytime soon.
Twitter has been even more of a mess than usual the last few days, in part because it limited the number of tweets each users could read each day. The move came as a surprise to many, but the company said it was unable to give folks a heads up.