The Facebook parent company, Meta finally rolled out Instagram threads - a text-based conversation app that looks similar to Twitter - for both iOS and Android on Wednesday. The app offers users the facility to share texts, links, and engage in conversations by replying to or reposting messages from fellow users. Although the app is brand new, existing Instagram users need not set up fresh login and password, rather they can use thier Instagram usernames on Threads.
According to Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, the platform has attracted over two million users in a matter of few hours.
Zuckerberg, who has been on the microblogging platform Twitter for over a decade also made his first tweet using an iconic Spiderman pointing to Spiderman meme, indirectly announcing the launch of Threads.
The launch also prompted reactions from Twitter users taking sides with Elon Musk.
A Twitter user @cb_doge mocked Meta’s new Threads app with his latest post which shows a keyboard with copy and paste buttons which indicates that Meta’s new app is similar to Twitter.
Another Twitter user shared a meme with the caption, "Scene after the Launch of threads app."
"Haha just made this meme One of the nuisances of being a social media managers #Threads," wrote a third.
Another Twitter user shared a video explaining how people will return to the micro-blogging platform after trying Threads.
"#Threads is a mixture of the ego of LinkedIn, with bad memes of Facebook and the hypocrisy of Instagram," wrote a fifth.
Another user wrote, "When the choice is just too hard to make!."