Meta’s Twitter analog created 5 million accounts in four hours – Kommersant

In the first four hours of the work of the new Threads social network, 5 million users registered, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Meta (recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), said. Threads is an analogue of Twitter, which is owned by Elon Musk.

The application was launched on the night of July 6 Moscow time. It is available in more than 100 countries, including Russia. The application is available in Russian. During registration, it is indicated that Threads is part of another Meta social network – Instagram, which is blocked in Russia. Threads, like Instagram, doesn’t work without a VPN connection. The day before, July 5, Roskomnadzor, answering a question RBC about whether Threads will be blocked in Russia, he only noted that, at the suit of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the court banned Meta Platforms Inc from the implementation of Facebook and Instagram social networks.

Many users and advertisers began to refuse to use Twitter after Elon Musk, who bought the social network, made a number of controversial decisions. In particular, he restored some previously blocked accounts, softened the rules of moderation, and made the verification function paid (blue tick). Early July Twitter restricted the number of tweets a user can read per day.

Leonid Uvarchev