Who says 5 million users signed up for this new platform within the first four hours, and twitter owner elon musk. 0ur north america technology correspondent james clayton has been looking into threads offering. ican i can tell you it looks an awful lot like twitter and that is because mark zuckerberg absolutely wants this to compete directly with twitter. this is mark zuckerberg against elon musk. what does it look and feel like? there is a maximum character limit of 500, you can share post with your friends, in a very similar way to twitter, all accounts will start off private and you can make them public. in theory, isn t available now, but the hope is from matter that this will be interoperable with other platforms like blue sky and mustered on. i think the crucial thing here, though, and this is why i am excited about this, and otherjournalists, is that this is notjust a random player, it is matter doing this. they have a lot of experience of copying other
She s a fellow at the center for strategic and international studies where she researches technology regulation in the united states and abroad. welcome to the programme. what do you make of threads? have you signed up? i do you make of threads? have you signed up? do you make of threads? have you signed up? i have signed up ust a you signed up? i have signed up just a couple you signed up? i have signed up just a couple of you signed up? i have signed up just a couple of hours you signed up? i have signed up just a couple of hours ago. - just a couple of hours ago. have you played? i just a couple of hours ago. have you played?- just a couple of hours ago. have you played? i have played. i have have you played? i have played. i have been have you played? i have played. i have been able have you played? i have played. i have been able to have you played? i have played. i have been able to migrate - i have been able to migrate some of my followers from instagram to threads,
Actually seems like a pretty logical move for matter for a couple of reasons, first of all, just like james said, matter has a long history of borrowing features from its competitors, for example, instagram stories is modelled after snapchat, and instagram reels is modelled after tiktok. that said, i do think that threads can potentially offer some selling points that it s some selling points that its competitors don t. for example, like ijust mentioned, how instagram users can automatically follow their friend list when migrating threads, threads is built on a decentralised infrastructure, meaning it might potentially offer interoperability with non meta apps like mastodon. this is something we haven t seen from major social media apps in the past. apps in the past. sorry to interrupt apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just - apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just to - apps in the past. sorry to interrupt you, just to say