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(Reuters) – Meta Platforms plans to launch microblogging app Threads, days after Twitter Chief Government Elon Musk introduced a short lived restrict on the variety of posts customers can learn on the social community.
Threads, a text-based chat app on Instagram, is predicted to launch Thursday and permit customers to observe accounts they observe on the photo-sharing platform and maintain the identical username, an inventory on Apple’s (NASDAQ: ) App Retailer. confirmed.
The launch comes after Twitter introduced restrictions on the app, together with the have to be verified to make use of TweetDeck.
Musk’s newest anti-data-scraping bulletins have sparked backlash from Twitter customers, with promoting consultants saying it would undermine new CEO Linda Yacarino, who took over final month.
Meta didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for touch upon the same launch on Google’s (NASDAQ: ) Play Retailer.
