{"id":1964116,"date":"2023-07-04T16:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-04T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-killer-meta-launches-social-media-app-aimed-at-rival\/"},"modified":"2023-07-04T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-04T20:39:20","slug":"twitter-killer-meta-launches-social-media-app-aimed-at-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-killer-meta-launches-social-media-app-aimed-at-rival\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta, the social media giant, introduces a new app to challenge Twitter&#8217;s dominance."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-killer-meta-launches-social-media-app-aimed-at-rival%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1964116&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Watch out, Elon Musk.<\/h2>\n<p>Facebook parent company Meta is unveiling a new app that could become a rival to Twitter, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-dan-bongino-on-the-future-of-parler-and-governments-role-in-tech\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Dan Bongino on the Future of Parler and Government\u2019s Role in Tech\">microblogging platform<\/a> now owned by Musk.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>LET INDEPENDENCE DAY MEAN INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, NOT GROUPTHINK<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A listing for the app, Threads, is now live on the Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-permanently-bans-president-trumps-account\/\" title=\"Twitter permanently bans President Trump\u2019s account\">app store<\/a>, the Associated Press reported, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pfizer-biontech-say-covid-19-vaccine-protects-for-six-months\/\" title=\"Pfizer, BioNTech Say Covid-19 Vaccine Protects for Six Months\">full app<\/a> could be available as soon as Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Billed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-killer-meta-launches-social-media-app-aimed-at-rival\/\" title=\"Meta, the social media giant, introduces a new app to challenge Twitter's dominance.\">text-based conversation app linked<\/a> to Instagram, it teases an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-investigating-death-of-ore-woman-after-taking-jj-vaccine\/\" title=\"CDC investigating death of Ore. woman after taking J&#038;J vaccine\">experience similar<\/a> to that offered by Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Meta is owned by Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the company as Facebook in 2004 while still a college student and became a young multibillionaire as a result. Now 39, Zuckerberg has seen Facebook&#8217;s dominance wane and his virtual reality projects struggle.<\/p>\n<p>But he may see an opening for a rival to Twitter, which has been the subject of controversy since Musk&#8217;s $44 billion takeover last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThreads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what\u2019ll be trending tomorrow,\u201d<\/strong> reads the Threads description in the app store.<\/p>\n<p>Users of Instagram, another Meta product, can keep their usernames on the new app and follow the same accounts after signing up.<\/p>\n<p>Musk hasn&#8217;t taken the news lying down, replying &#8220;Yeah&#8221; to a post from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pointing out potential data collection from Threads.<\/p>\n<p>Musk and Zuckerberg have faced off more directly in recent weeks, with the two billionaires even jokingly agreeing to a cage match earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But they&#8217;ve also faced other controversies that have nothing to do with their rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter announced Monday it will require users to pay for verification before using the TweetDeck dashboard, which attracted a measure of blowback. Meanwhile, Meta lost an antitrust case in Europe that threatens its business model on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s parent company, Meta, is launching Threads, a potential competitor to Elon Musk&#8217;s Twitter. The app, available on the Apple app store, promotes independent thinking on Independence Day, rather than groupthink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1964117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1964116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}