us, you are in time for the top business stories. we start in the us where, as you ve been hearing in the last few hours, meta, the owner of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, has launched its widely anticipated new conversation app, threads. it allows users to create posts of up to 500 characters and is being seen as a clear rival to twitter. threads is available to download in more than 100 countries around the world, including here in the uk, but not as yet in the european union because of concerns over privacy regulations. meta boss mark zuckerberg says 5 million users have already signed up to threads in the first four hours. and many tech industry watchers say it poses a very real threat to twitter. i think threads will pose a huge threat to twitter because it is coming from the matter and instagram family of apps. instagram has 2 million users compared to around 250 million of twitter so about ten times bigger already. of twitter so about ten times biggeralready. if of
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empowering force and not a force for negativity or harm. thank you. i am sure we will discuss this again going forward. thank you very much indeed. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. voiceover: bbc news, bringing you different stories from across the uk. tuesday morning, and the streets around easton in bristol are packed with cars and vans parked up on the pavements. bin dayjust adds to the problem. it s almost impossible to navigate and it sjust unfair. zoey lives nearby. she s a keen walker and also works for the walking and cycling charity, sustrans. two thirds of people from our walking and cycling index in bristol also support a ban on pavement parking in bristol. it s not unusual. the problem is that pavement parking here in the west is a bit of a grey area. whilst in london, it s completely banned, giving a ticket, for example, to a car parked like this here is a lot more subjective. later on, we bump into a family really struggling to just take their newborn
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