More than 10 million people have signed up to Threads, Meta's rival to Twitter, within the first seven hours of its launch, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday.
, which offers a built-in audience of more than two billion users, sparing the new platform the challenge of starting from scratch.
Analyst Jasmine Engberg from Insider Intelligence said Threads only needs one out of four Instagram monthly users "to make it as big as Twitter." He has angered Twitter's most devoted aficionados by declaring that access to its TweetDeck product -- which allows users to view a fast flow of tweets at once -- would be for paying customers only.Meta has its legion of critics too, especially in Europe, which could slow the growth of Threads.
"I was worried that our window would close, because timing is important," he told the tech news site Platformer.
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