Amid Threads launch, Mark Zuckerberg tweets for first time in 11 years, jabs Elon Musk

Hours after launching Meta’s Twitter rival – Threads – CEO Mark Zuckerberg tweeted for the primary time in over a decade. Poking enjoyable at Twitter proprietor Elon Musk, Zuckerberg posted the enduring Spider Man dealing with off meme on Thursday in an obvious reference to the roll out of Twitter’s substitute. No caption was added to the submit.

The fb founder’s first tweet since January, 2012, comes days after Musk challenged him to a cage combat.

Built by the crew at Instagram, Threads is a text-based app that enables customers to share posts as much as 500-character lengthy. Officially unveiled on Wednesday, it’s thought of probably the most potent menace but to Twitter, which has been ridden with outages and bother ever since Musk’s takeover. The app will be logged in by way of an Instagram account. Posts on Threads may embrace photos and brief, increased high quality movies.

Meta mentioned that Threads is taking “what Instagram does best and expand that to text, creating a positive and creative space to express your ideas.”

Users can be a part of public conversations by connecting with pals and creators – together with the folks you observe on Instagram.

“There should be a public conversations app with 1 billion-plus people on it,” Zuckerberg mentioned in a submit on Threads after its launch. “Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”

Since Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October, it’s minimize hundreds of staff and loosened content material moderation insurance policies. In the most recent controversial coverage change, Twitter restricted the variety of tweets customers can view day by day — a measure Musk referred to as “temporary” so as to fend off information scrapers and bots.

(With inputs from Bloomberg)