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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The Threads app and Adam Mosseri.

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Instagram’s Threads Adds Some New Features, Still Falls Short of Being a True Twitter Clone

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Threads is getting some new feature updates, inching it a little closer to the Twitter clone that was promised.

Meta and Microsoft Introduce Llama 2 AI and It's Open Source

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As the AI bubble continues to inflate—for better or worse—two titans of the tech industry, Microsoft and Meta, have unveiled the second generation of LLaMA, and they’re giving competitor OpenAI a run for its money by making it open source.

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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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One trader is so bullish Meta's stock is going to keep skyrocketing, they bet $40 million on thousands of trades

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One trader is so bullish Meta's stock is going to keep skyrocketing, they bet $40 million on thousands of trades.

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The FAA Is Using VR Simulators to Test Helicopter Safety

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The top aircraft regulator in the US says it’s experimenting with a pair of virtual reality helicopter training simulators to conduct safety research.

Meta Told to Hand Over Threads Content Moderation Documents to Congress

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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has issued an additional subpoena directing Meta to hand over documents surrounding content moderation on its newest app, Threads.

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