Taliban’s Haqqani wades into ‘Twitter vs Threads’ struggle. ‘…intolerant policy like Meta’

Amid the continuing debate over ‘Twitter vs Threads’, the microblogging platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk has discovered an unlikely supporter within the Haqqani Network, the Islamist group that wields monumental energy in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Anas Haqqani, one of many prime leaders of the Taliban setup in Kabul, stated that Twitter has two benefits over different social media platforms, asserting that different platforms can’t exchange it.

“The first privilege is the freedom of speech. The second privilege is the public nature & credibility of Twitter,” Haqqani stated. “Twitter doesn’t have an intolerant policy like Meta. Other platforms cannot replace it.”

Haqqani Network is among the fundamental factions of the Afghan Taliban and Twitter has been their most popular social media platform due to its content material moderation coverage.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms Inc.’s has taken the social media race by storm after the launch of its new microblogging platform Threads, which many see as a solution to Twitter. Threads has rocketed to 100 million customers in lower than per week, Zuckerberg introduced on Monday.

“Threads reached 100 million sign ups over the weekend,” Zuckerberg stated in a publish. “That’s mostly organic demand and we haven’t even turned on many promotions yet. Can’t believe it’s only been 5 days!”

The text-centric service intently resembles Twitter in look and performance, incomes the displeasure of Twitter proprietor Elon Musk who has accused it of being a copycat and an “Instagram minus pics.” The two billionaire house owners have traded jibes in latest weeks and Threads is now on the centre of an intensifying rivalry.

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