will overcome in time? what are your thoughts on that? i will overcome in time? what are your thoughts on that? your thoughts on that? i think in the long-term, your thoughts on that? i think in the long-term, if your thoughts on that? i think in the long-term, if threads l your thoughts on that? i think| in the long-term, if threads is in the long term, if threads is really going to become a legitimate twitter competitor, it will of course need to launch in the european union. that is a huge market for matter. but this is day one for threads. i think that at the moment a potential twitter competitor, what a textbased standalone app might look like, and perhaps it may make sense to test it out with a market that does not include the eu at the moment, just to see if threads can even get started and get off the ground and the user base that matter is perhaps hoping for. thank you very much- perhaps hoping for. thank you very much. good perhaps hoping for. thank you very much. goo
imagine that putin is really hoping he can wait for trumpet s re election. of course one can hope that will not happen, but that is a matter for domestic politics. donald trump. the public this effort. the problem would be a donald trump re election. well, we should certainly be across every twist and turn. thank you very much. the social media giant, meta which owns facebook and instagram has officially launched its new app, threads. the app will be linked to instagram and is widely seen as a potential rival to twitter. meta describes it as a text based conversation app. users will be able to post up to 500 characters of text and five minutes of video and pictures. it will not be available in the european union yet because of their regulatory concerns. the launch is the latest in a rivalry between the meta boss mark zuckerberg,
apps successfully and stories, which is a copy of snapchat, and this app will have access to hundreds and millions of instagram accounts. that 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 though 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, 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 actor that has really come into force of the matter is worried about getting sued because it will be transferring data from threads to instagram and vice versa. still a lot to unpick, very difficult to know how successful this will be, but a real moment here in san francisco. live now to caitlin chin.
late in the season, and maggie fears most will have perished in the outbreak. it will be a couple of months before the scientists publish their findings. a team from the rspb has estimated the survival rate of adult birds is down 42%. it is a big hit, but the good news is a big hit, but the good news is the gannet colony here at bass rock will survive. justin rowlatt, bbc news, the firth of forth. that is good news, that s very good news. we have all the top business stories here next. we talk some more about threads. i would like to know, are you on that? are you busy communicating with people via threads, via your instagram account may be? i will see you in a moment.