Twitter Rival Instagram Threads Launching On This Date

Instagram Threads, the much-talked-about Twitter rival is likely to launch on July 6 amid criticism of Twitter due to Elon Musk imposed limit on reading posts on the platform.

Meta has also added a launch date teaser to the Instagram app. ( Image Source :Getty )

Instagram Threads, the much-talked-about Twitter rival is likely to launch on July 6, according to an Apple App Store listing for the app, amid criticism of Twitter due to Elon Musk imposed limit on reading posts on the platform. This also means that Instagram Threads is ready to be launched on Apple iPhone. A report from last night suggests that Thread's version for Android has also been spotted on the official Google Play Store. The app has been in development since January and will be directly integrated with Meta-owned Instagram, reports say.

Social networking giant Meta has also added a launch date teaser to the Instagram app. One has to type “threads” into the search box on Instagram (or a number of other keywords) which causes a ticket icon to appear on the search bar. Once you tap on it, a spinning ticket appears to show your Instagram username alongside a local launch time. It is ready to be launched at 10 am ET on July 6. The spinning ticket also includes a QR code that links to threads.net, which is the purported new social media platform’s web portal.

The decision comes amid a series of drastic changes ordered by tech billionaire Musk, which includes requiring users to be logged in to the website in order to view tweets and limiting the number of tweets that can be viewed each day for unverified accounts to 600 and new unverified accounts to 300. The verified accounts can view up to 6,000 posts.

Meanwhile, following the announcement of imposing new limits to the amount of posts users can see on the micro-blogging platform, there has been a surge in activity at Mastodon, a German rival that prides itself on its decentralised, user-driven structure, a report by news agency Reuters said. Twitter's German alternative Mastodon as well as BlueSky have gotten a big push in the wake of the new Twitter "mess" that was a result of Twitter boss Musk's announcement to restrict the number of tweets for users on the platform they can see in a day. Musk, earlier on Sunday, temporarily enforced limits on post readings to prevent "data scraping and system manipulation".

Announcing the temporary limits on post readings, Musk wrote on Sunday: "To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits."

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