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One of Twitter’s co-founders, Jack Dorsey, has been criticizing Threads since it launched on Wednesday night. Claiming that it is just a “Twitter clone” and that it “lacks any originality”. Which is pretty rich since his own new app looks exactly like Twitter – that’s Bluesky.
Dorsey tweeted about his complaints, which is kind of ironic since he started Bluesky, but I guess there’s not enough people over there to listen to his complaints. Dorsey stated that “we wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones.” Which, Dorsey is not wrong, but this is also partly his fault.
A user did criticize Dorsey, saying that he made two of the seven clones. In which Dorsey replied that “no. Bluesky and nostr are protocols that Twitter can build upon. Would remove some constraints and burden. Not competitive.” What Dorsey is forgetting is that Threads is going to be built on the ActivityPub protocol, the same protocol that Mastodon uses.
Twitter’s owner, Elon Musk has already sent a cease and desist letter to Zuckerberg
The heat between Musk and Zuckerberg continues to get hotter. After the two agreed to a cage match (which is actually happening!), now the two are going at it over Twitter and Threads. Musk had his lawyers send a cease and desist letter to Meta over Threads. Claiming that Zuckerberg hired former Twitter employees (which Musk laid off), and used stolen intellectual property to create this app. Which is also not true, as no former Twitter employee is working on Threads.
Meanwhile, Threads is still coming in hot. With over 70 million sign ups in over 48 hours, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Is Musk worried that Threads is going to have more users than Twitter has ever had in 15 years of existence? Probably. But he’s doing a good job of driving them away too.
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