After Elon Musk purchased Twitter and turned it into a free speech platform, liberals desperately sought to find a safe space, free from opinions they didn’t like. It didn’t go so well, and so Meta stepped in to create its own Twitter clone: Threads.
Threads launched in July, and the media literally gushed over its meteoric success. A mere 16 hours after launch, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the app had accumulated 30 million signups. Just over four days later, the platform had over 100 million users.
I was not impressed. I saw Threads as the new Google+, a social media platform by an existing big tech giant that failed to succeed despite rapid initial growth.
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There were countless articles about how Threads would give Twitter real competition, and possibly kill the platform.
“I’ve tried them all, and Meta’s new ‘Threads’ poses the greatest opportunity to (finally) transcend Twitter. Perhaps that’s why the social media app is already being dubbed the ‘Twitter killer,’” wrote Matt Lewis at The Daily Beast when Threads launched.
“Mark Zuckerberg’s rival social network is first serious…
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