Instagram Unveils Threads App, a Major Threat to Musk's Twitter

Bloomberg2023-07-06

Meta’s new text app takes direct aim at its longtime rivalUsers can bring over followers, verification from InstagramMeta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram officially unveiled Threads, an app designed as a ...

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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. Many of those influential accounts have been asking Instagram to make a text-based app, according to Connor Hayes, a vice president of product.“Creators were telling us, ‘We want an alternative to what’s out there, and we don’t want to start over and have to build out a following from zero,’” Hayes said in an interview, without mentioning Twitter specifically.Instagram and Facebook, both owned by Meta, have a long — and successful — history of copying products from upstart internet competitors. The company’s Reels feature was a knockoff of TikTok’s viral video app, and its Stories disappearing posts followed the rise of Snap Inc.’s Snapchat. 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Advertising revenue at the San Francisco-based company has declined by 50%, Musk said in March, and he recently hired Linda Yaccarino, a NBCUniversal executive, as chief executive officer to try to improve relationships with brands.As of the Wednesday launch of Threads, Twitter is still limiting how many tweets per day users can view — a measure Musk called “temporary” in order to fend off data scrapers and bots. Those restrictions are only the latest move prompting Twitter users to seek alternatives. But most of the company’s previous direct challengers, such as Bluesky and Mastodon, haven’t built up networks big enough to give posts the reach and impact they have on Twitter. Many new alternative networks are also still building out systems for managing harmful, inappropriate or violent content.Threads will embark with all those mature company systems in place, thanks to Instagram’s existing infrastructure. 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