by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
For those of us who have been standing on the sidelines and patiently awaiting the demise of Twitter, that day may have finally arrived. Threads, supposedly the closest thing to the pre-Musk Twitter to yet reach the market, premiered just four days ago and had 10 million sign-ups in the first seven hours. This morning the app was at 95 million signups and still climbing.
Threads is an Instagram app, and Instagram is in turn owned by Facebook's parent company, Meta - all of which is controlled by billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg. Twitter is an independent social media concern that was purchased last October by billionaire Elon Musk for $44 billion.
Elon Musk assumed personal control of Twitter and made decisions which left the platform in a state of flux. He brought back accounts that had been barred due to misinformation and/or hate speech, and closed facilities and cut staff. One result of the upheaval at Twitter was that many users chose to leave the platform - including this tiresome typist. Many of those who left have been waiting patiently for an alternative similar to Twitter to present itself, and of several alternatives that have sprung up over the past several months, Threads appears to be the one that is generating the most excitement.
I plan to join Threads and become an active user just as soon as I find some twelve-year-old with time to show me how to become a member and how to use it. I will be seeing several of my grandchildren next week, and perhaps one of them will be able to get Pa Rock onto Threads!
Meanwhile, Elon Musk has looked at the numbers and seen the future. He has already had his attorney send a letter to Zuckerberg threatening a lawsuit and claiming that Zuck has hired former Twitter employees and is stealing trade secrets. (Yo, Elon - maybe firing all of those people wasn't such a great idea after all!)
Don't you just hate it when billionaires can't play nice with each other!
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