In this illustrated photo, you can see the Threads logo displayed on a smartphone with Elon Musk’s Twitter profile in the background. Elon Musk is the current owner of Twitter. Meta launches Twitter rival social media app Threads. “Threads” is a text-based conversation app for Instagram.
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Twitter is similarly hit by a wave of outages meta An all-new rival Threads service has amassed tens of millions of signups.
Data from Downdetector shows that many Twitter users have reported outages over the past 24 hours, with the problem appearing to spike around 9:30 AM ET on Friday. website. Downdetector accumulates data from users who find bugs and report them to the service.
According to Downdetector, about 70% of Twitter outages seem to be related to desktop services. Only 13% were associated with mobile apps.
Twitter’s TweetDeck service, which allows users to manage multiple Twitter conversations, has also experienced downtime in recent days following the company’s outage. announced Only authenticated users will have access. However, according to the data, the main problem seems to be her Twitter app at the core.
Meanwhile, the Threads app had 70 million sign-ups as of Friday morning, just one day after its official launch, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads.
Zuckerberg said of the app’s immediate popularity, “It far exceeded our expectations.”
On Thursday, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino, who took over from owner Elon Musk a month ago, tweeted that the company was “well imitated,” a clear sign of Threads. Mention.
Twitter has not commented on the matter.
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