Updates on Meta's Twitter competitor part 3

Meta's Twitter competitor, Threads, is set to launch on 6th July on iOS. There's even a countdown page, if you enjoy this sort of thing.

This comes at a particularly vulnerable time for Twitter as Elon Musk limits people from viewing tweets, unless they have an account and are logged in. He has also claimed that Twitter is a victim of AI companies scraping their data. As part of this move, he has also limited the number of posts a user can view per day.

However, web developer Sheldon Chang has suggested that this is because, in an act of epic self-own, Elon Musk's Twitter is conducting a DDOS attack on itself. Hence the need to limit traffic.

This and other unpopular actions such as limiting use of the popular Tweetdeck to paid users, has driven users to other platforms such as Mastodon, Bluesky and other alternatives.

While these alternatives have had a small fraction of Twitter's user number, they have been growing whenever Twitter encounters problems.

These alternatives are also started/managed by relatively small competitors (Mastodon's protocol is not even owned by anyone). However, Meta is a well resourced company with a history of copying competitors and executing well.

Twitter is facing it's most serious threat yet.

You can check out the Threads app at the App store.

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