account and able to keep my same username and follow the folks i do on that platform with the click of a button and analysts are calling it a potential twitter killer. meta will leverage the strong relationships with advertisers and user base. they have offer 2 billion on instagram. the launch is timely coming as twitter is facing a lot of challenges under elon musk, backlash with folks not wanting to play for the blue checks, twitter limiting the number of tweets users can read. on the launch last night mark zuckerberg shared the musk-run platform has faltered at creating a public forum. we re launching threads, an open and friendly public space for conversations. i am looking forward to the fun journey ahead to turn this into the kind of big and friendly community that i think we all want to see in the world. some are asking who decides
with a billion people. twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn t nailed it. musk says it is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on twitter than indulge in hide the pain instagram. i have gone through it all and looked at the propers and cons. the one thing that stands out to me threads is not chronological. it will destroy it. it has to find a way to be more chronological like twitter. they face some regulatory issues. instagram, thread, already. meta is already has some issues with the from from facebook, instagram and threads my have issues getting to a bill people if you don t have access to certain markets like the e.u. way too early to tell. 5 million people in four minutes is impressive. when you have 2 billion as a platform, maybe not so
earlier mr zuckerberg said keeping the platform friendly. will ultimately be the key to its success . to which, mr musk responded in a tweet: it is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide the pain instagram. earlier we spoke to dan sodergren, a digital marketing and technology expert. well, it seems like a very basic version of twitter, which, of course it is. it s a stripped down version of it. and let s be fair, microblogging is not as actually owned by twitter, and it s not really a new idea.
mr musk tweeted after the launch. it is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide the pain instagram. but if this was a fight, it does look like mark zuckerberg has had a good first round. i spoke earlier to the bbc s technology editor, zoe kleinman. i was quite surprised by how much activity there was. there has been a real buzz around this app. mark zuckerberg says a 10 million people have signed up in a for seven hours of its launch. to give you a comparison there is an alternative text based social network called mastodon which had a big increase in followers last year after elon musk first bought twitter. i wrote an article about that for the bbc at the time i said it had registered 230,000 new users in one week. now we have 10 million people signing up in seven hours. it is busy and
it s not a particularly complex piece of technology to build. there are other things like mastodon that do this and blue sky, and there s lots of other competitors to twitter. but of course, mark zuckerberg has done a fantastic thing by linking this to instagram, which means distribution is its kind of killer feature. it can then grab hold of the 2.3 billion people that instagram have got, and just by a couple of clicks, you can actually follow the same people you follow on instagram. so this is the reason why it s gone so viral, so very quickly. and that s an amazing thing. you know, first time first time tech founders think about product, second time tech s tech founders think about distribution. and mark, of course, with everything else that he owns has cracked it. interesting. so a glowing review so far. and what do you make of the timing of the release? well, again, i must confess it s not a glowing review of the app itself, but of just the way that they ve done it and the way the