Why Threads will never be the new Twitter

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Threads doesn't have any of the magic that made Twitter popular in the first place.

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Threads use is down to about 6 minutes a day — plummeting from 21 minutes when it first launched

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Meta's Threads app is viewed on an iPhone screen held by a person, and bespectacled Adam Mosseri wears a suit, looks to the left.
The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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Threads Continues to Copy Twitter's Worst Elements With New Rate Limits

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Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram lead Adam Mosseri have been adamant they were not simply copying Twitter wholesale. And yet, that’s exactly what they seem to be doing as the company’s latest move has been to limit the number of posts users can see on the Instagram-based app, just as Elon Musk’s Twitter did…

Mark Zuckerberg says tens of millions of people are returning to use Threads every day

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Mark Zuckerberg said he was confident that Threads was on a good path.

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Humblebraggers beware: Elon Musk's new Twitter rules will punish you for tweeting too much about how many followers you have

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Elon Musk is preparing to reduce the reach of tweets that "diminish the experience" of Twitter.

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Elon Musk calls Threads' rate limit 'oppressive' as the Meta competitor added restrictions weeks after Twitter limited users to seeing 600 posts per day

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Twitter's new rivals suffer similar problems: Threads to use rate limits due to spam and Bluesky missed racist slurs

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Meta's Threads app is viewed on an iPhone screen held by a person, and bespectacled Adam Mosseri wears a suit, looks to the left.
The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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Elon Musk says he's ditching a 'silly' Twitter policy that stopped an account dedicated to a beagle from being monetized

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Elon Musk says user should consider the policy deleted.

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Five Features Threads is Still Missing to Be a Twitter Killer

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For a brand-new app, Threads launched in a highly functional form. Many of the things we’re complaining about took a long time to come to Twitter, and perhaps it’s unfair to judge something just a few weeks old with a mature (if deteriorating) app that first launched in 2006.

Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter Killer

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