Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads app launched More than 10 million people registered in their first few hours, with Facebook’s founder aiming to get a billion people, while Elon Musk claimed he spread “fake happiness” like Instagram.
An application has been published Threads, created by Meta, in the UK last night, is trying to attract Twitter users with longer posts and accounts linked to Insta. The name of the app Threads is the most popular word on Twitter today.
In a post on the app, Mark Zuckerberg, President of Facebook, said: “10 million subscriptions in seven hours.”After claiming that Threads will outperform Twitter’s 450 million users can reach a billion, after 5 million users enter in the first 4 hours, according to the Daily Mail.
A close source from the company said the new Meta app Threads, which means Twitter's competition, will not be available in the EU when it launches Thursday due to regulatory concerns.
The app is seen as Twitter’s biggest challenge to date since Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social media platform, which is very popular among politicians and celebrities, led to chaos, according to Indian website gadgets360.
A close source from Meta said the technology giant is lagging behind thread issuance in the 27 EU countries as it seeks to clarify the block’s digital markets law that will come into full force next year.
DMA is a historical law that sets strict rules for Europe’s largest Internet companies.
One of these regulations prohibits platforms from sharing data across different services and restricts companies that direct platform users to their own products.
The Threads description in U.S. app stores indicated that the user’s personal data, including contact and geographic location information, will be collected and used for advertising purposes.
Meta has already conflicted with EU rules for its attempts to use data from WhatsApp to boost Instagram and Facebook, which European regulators prevented her from doing.
A spokesperson for the Irish Data Protection Commission told the Irish newspaper Independent that Meta confirmed that it would not launch the app in Europe “at this point.”
Ireland is home to Meta’s headquarters in the European Union, the national regulator is responsible for overseeing the company in Europe, and in contact with the AFP agency, Meta has not commented immediately.
Meta was one of seven companies, including Amazon and Apple, that reported to the EU that it met the threshold to be subject to new rules when they came into effect next year.
