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NEW YORK (AP): Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta’s photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available last Wednesday night to users in more than 100 countries, including...

Some Nigerians on Saturday blamed the inconsistencies with Twitter App for the emergence of Threads, a text-based App by Meta, saying it is a healthy competition.

It isnt sitting so well with musk, who tweeted, quote, competition is fine, tweeting is not. which is interesting because meta communications director andy stone has denied the claim, saying, quote no one on the threat engineering team is a former twitter employee. that is just not a thing. that is just the legal thing between the two. a literal cage match is also supposedly in the works between the two, if you will, tech boroughs with musk challenging zuckerberg to fight on social media last mo...

Some Nigerians on Saturday blamed the inconsistencies with Twitter App for the emergence of Threads, a text-based App by Meta, saying it is a healthy competition. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, on Wednesday announced the initial version of Threads, an App built by the Instagram team.

The account ElonJet tracked the movement of Elon Musk's private jet in real time, until it was suspended by Twitter last year. Now, it has resurfaced on Meta's fast-growing Twitter rival, Threads.

Twitter, the popular microblogging platform, threatened Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with a lawsuit a few hours after the launch of Threads - an app many believe to be Meta's replacement for Twitter. 

Experts say Twitter would have to clear a high hurdle if it sues Meta Platforms over copycat app Threads.

Twitter owner Elon Musk claims Meta's new "Threads" app is a "copycat" made by former Twitter employees exploiting trade secrets.

Legal experts say Twitter must clear a high hurdle if it sues Meta Platform Inc (NASDAQ: META) over the creation of a rival social media ap

Mark Zuckerbergs Threads app has already taken measures to censor its users - by creating hurdles to follow certain people and outright deleting some threads.