Meta’s Threads App Draws Millions Seeking a Twitter Alternative
- Meta’s new text app takes direct aim at its longtime rival
- Users can bring over followers, verification from Instagram
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More than 30 million users signed up for Meta Platforms Inc.’s new app Threads, designed as a direct rival to Twitter and the most serious threat yet to Elon Musk’s struggling social-media site.
On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others. The app will let users port over their existing follower lists and account names from Instagram, Meta’s photo and video-sharing app that counts major brands, celebrities and creators among its more than 2 billion users.