And mustered on. i think the crucial thing here and this is why i am excited about this as this is not a random player, this is not a random player, this is not a random player, this is meta doing this, they have a lot of experience of copying other apps very successfully, reels which is a copy of tiktok, stories which is a copy of snapchat and this at will have access to hundreds and millions of instagram accounts. it is not starting from zero. so this has a very, very good chance of succeeding, some people are calling it a twitter killer. it will also hoover up lots of data so it is worth just saying that in a way that some other apps don t. this is a really, really significant moment in terms of twitter. a very perilous moment i would say for elon musk s new twitter. just one more thing to say about this, it won t be available in the eu because of the digital market act that has recently come into force. meta
To twitter, all accounts will start off private and then you can make them public, and in theory this isn t available now but the hope is from meta that this will be interoperable with other platforms like blue sky and mastodon.l i think the crucial thing here and this is why i am excited about this is this is not a random player, this is meta doing this, they have a lot of experience of copying other apps very successfully, reels which is a copy of tiktok, stories which is a copy of snapchat and this app will have access to hundreds and millions of instagram accounts. it is not starting from zero. so this has a very, very good chance of succeeding, some people are calling it a twitter killer. it will also hoover up lots of data so it is worth just saying that in a way that some other apps don t. this is a really, really significant moment in terms of twitter. a very perilous moment
Actually seems like a pretty logical move for matter for a couple of reasons, first of all, just like james said, matter has a long history of borrowing features from its competitors, for example, instagram stories is modelled after snapchat, and instagram reels is modelled after tiktok. that said, i do think that threads can potentially offer some selling points that it s some selling points that its competitors don t. for example, like ijust mentioned, how instagram users can automatically follow their friend list when migrating threads, threads is built on a decentralised infrastructure, meaning it might potentially offer interoperability with non meta apps like mastodon. this is something we haven t seen from major social media apps in the past. apps in the past. sorry to interrupt apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just - apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just to - apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just to say | interrupt you, just to say in terms of the european union take on this at the moment, ie, it is not available here right now, we are still checking up regulatory issues we are concerned about, is that a big dealfor concerned about, is that a big deal for the launch of this, or is thatjust an obstacle they
Stories was inspired by snapchat stories. reels was inspired by tick tock and i suspect with things we might be the best inventors in town but when it comes to execution, we are pretty much the best around. there are lots of newcomers in this field. the difference here though of course is that instagram has 2 billion users already, they already have regulations and controls across instagram. so in scale and in tight, this is an entirely different proposition. this is an entirely different proposition- this is an entirely different proposition. this is an entirely different roosition. , . ., ~ proposition. very much so. i worked for a lona proposition. very much so. i worked for a long time proposition. very much so. i worked for a long time at proposition. very much so. i worked for a long time at twitter proposition. very much so. i worked for a long time at twitter and - proposition. very much so. i worked for a long time at twitter and one i for a long time at twitter and one of the challenges we had was persuading new people to open accounts and then showing them that there was a been good for them. now with instagram having to begin users, to try and encourage to percent of those people to slide across and have a look gives him a business and if you can persuade 20 or 30%, that arguably he s bigger than twitter. so while it might seem like a gamble and some people have
Think the ongoing chaos at twitter, twitter users mad that they could not see tweets at the weekend because they were to use the phrase rate limited. and so it s been rumoured that he s been mooting launching the product for a while. finally i think he just thought this is my moment and he pressed go on it today. do you think threads would have done this if life at twitter had not appeared so chaotic? anyone who played with the product today knows that it s definitely not the finished article. it s still a work in progress, but i suspect one of the things that he told his teams is that we ve got a record of copying other ideas and making them better. instagram stories was inspired by snapchat stories. reels was inspired by tiktok, and i suspect he thinks we might be the best inventors in town but when it comes
reporter: so far the feedback has been mixed, with some zeroing in on the app s algorithm and its power over the user s timeline. i don t want to see what s trending. i just want to follow my friends. that s it. why doesn t anyone understand this? reporter: others bemoaning the lack of features, including no direct message. and you can t delete your threads account without also deleting instagram. threads acknowledging it will take time. i think this is a rush to take advantage of the fact that people right now are looking for an alternative to twitter. reporter: this is far from the first time zuckerberg has been accused of mimicking a popular social app. instagram stories and reels features are remarkably similar to that of snapchat and tiktok, but now twitter is threatening to take this battle out of the virtual arena and into court. how is this different from twitter? well, it s not. reporter: threads is available in america, but not the eu due to regulations. experts say that is going to be critical to reaching zuckerberg s goal of one billion users. lester? all right, erin,
People are dead, more hurt in fort worth, texas after somebody fired shots in a crowd at a fourth of july celebration. again, more and more calls for gun reform. the president also calling for this as the nation just reels from all of this violence. charles? aishah hasnie in new york city. thanks very much. what is driving the crisis? i want to bring in former nypd detective pat bronson to discuss. pat, let s start with the philadelphia d.a. i watched that press conference yesterday. he quickly pivoted from the people that pulled the trigger and insinuated that members of the nra, folks that own guns really, never committed a crime in their lives, that somehow they abated the situation that happened in philadelphia. titanically unaware. titanically. i saw it. that was a very convenient narrative for them. they re ignoring the central
Clone ideas of rivals and actually make them work. we have seen meta reels could be seen as a very similar platform or a very similar copy of tiktok, and it is very interesting, the timing here. and the description. it all very much points to it being a clone of the twitter platform. as you said, it has links to instagram, so it can pick up the followers there, so it is not going to be starting from scratch, because this isn t the first time we have seen a company or a person may think about president trump for example, trying to imitate the twitter platform. but as i said, this isn t starting from scratch. there is a lot of funding which could be behind it as well. but also the timing is so interesting. as you ve touched on there, there is a lot of rivalry between twitter and meta at the moment or more