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Threads launches: Meta’s Twitter rival has arrived – how it works, how to join, and which celebs are on board | Science & Tech News
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Threads, the long-awaited Twitter rival from Meta, launches in the UK today. Built by the firm’s Instagram team, it’s billed as a home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations”. Its release couldn’t be more aggressively timed, coming days after another controversial move by Twitter’s incendiary owner Elon Musk forced many people to look…
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Threads: Why Meta’s Twitter rival could finally be the one that catches on | Science & Tech News
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If you can’t beat them, copy them. That’s generally been Mark Zuckerberg‘s go-to strategy when it comes to dealing with upstart competitors to his social media empire. Long gone are the days when Instagram was just a feed of photos as was its original vision, with two of its now marquee features ripped straight from…
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Meta’s rules for checking VIP posts have caused ‘real harm’ and need ‘overhaul’, review says | Science & Tech News
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On Facebook and Instagram there are rules about what can and can’t be posted. They can change from time to time, as can the way they are enforced by human and robot moderators. But in theory the rules are the same for every one of the sites’ nearly five billion users. Unless, that is, you…