record set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. meta isn t creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that s in the days immediately after threads launched. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the microblogging app but others such as mastodon, bluesky and truth social remain small. history shows that creating a social media platform is hard but when it works, it really w
set by chatgpt, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. that was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores and 100 countries. mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast but if it feels like lots of people are already on it, well that is partly because it is connect to instagram. group three isn t creating an app from scratch, it is benefiting from its 2 billion instagram followers and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similar web, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior, that s in the days immediately after threads launched. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the microblogging app but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social remain small. history shows that creating a social media platforms hard but when it works, it really wo
beaten a record set by open air chat app, signing up more than 100 million users in under five days. now, it was just last wednesday that threads went live on apple and android app stores in 100 countries. meta boss mark zuckerberg said he couldn t believe the milestone had been reached so fast, but it feels like lots of people are already on it. well, that s partly because it s connected to instagram. meta, remember isn t creating an app from scratch. it s benefiting from its two billion instagram followers, and that s giving it a massive shot in the arm. analysts are calling this the first serious threat to the elon musk owned twitter. according to similarweb, twitter s web traffic was down 11% from the year prior. that s in the days immediately after threads launch. it s worth remembering threads is not the first attempt to challenge the micro blogging app, but others such as mastodon, blue sky and truth social, well, they all remain still pretty small right now. as histor
with two tests left to play. good morning. we have got some heavy rain in the south west of england. it is pushing north east through the day. it could miss the south east of england. northern scotland, a drier day. a few showers. details later in the programme. good morning. it s monday, 10thjuly. the bbc is meeting with the met police today, to discuss allegations that one of its presenters paid a teenager £35,000 for sexually explicit photos. the male presenter who hasn t been named has been suspended, and the corporation has contacted the police about the accusations, which were first reported in the sun newspaper. we re joined now by our news correspondent lizo mzimba. tell us about the latest allegations? well, today s front page of the sun newspaper claims the unnamed presenter made two panicked phone calls to the young individual in question, saying, what have you done? and asking them to ring their mother, to get them to stop the investigation. the bbc has not b
welcome to verified live,three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. of breaking stories, and checking the authorities in ukraine say more than 40,000 people are at risk from flooding, after a major dam in the south of the country, was attacked and collapsed yesterday. presdent putin has blamed ukraine for the attack calling it a barbaric act . while kyiv and moscow blame each other, once again it s civilians paying a heavy price for russia s war. this is the scene in the city of kherson entire houses and streets submerged underwater. some people waiting to be rescued in affected areas have been forced to spend the night on their roofs or in trees as the waters rose. the dam supplies water to large tracts of agricultural land, including in crimea. and the reservoir behind it provides water to cool the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant further upriver. both areas are currently under russian control. united nations says the collapse of the dam wil