Mr Dorsey had bashed Threads over the similarity it shares with Twitter.
Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new social media app launched as a rival to Elon Musk’s Twitter, has already secured 150 million downloads. On the app, individuals can submit textual content and hyperlinks and reply to or repost messages from others, very like the microblogging platform. Amid this, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey took a swipe at Mr Zuckerberg after the latter despatched him a comply with request on the brand new platform.
Taking to Twitter, Mr Dorsey posted a screenshot the place one can see Mr Zuckerberg’s comply with request to him. “Too quickly b,” he wrote within the caption of the submit.
Too quickly b pic.twitter.com/uhD8ZkvdxB
— jack (@jack) July 16, 2023
Since being shared, his submit has amassed over 1.4 million views and 18,000 likes.
“Block him jack,” stated a consumer.
“Fascinating,” stated one other individual.
One other individual wrote, “He is been actual quiet after that 100M thread. One thing up, or down?”
“Zuck received simply 3M followers solely on his personal platform? LOL musk has 148M over right here,” identified one other individual.
“The salt being sprinkled between the social media OGs these days has been nice leisure,” famous one other individual.
Just a few days in the past, the Twitter founder additionally bashed Meta’s product over the similarity it shares with the microblogging platform. He took to Twitter and stated, “We wished flying automobiles, as a substitute we received 7 Twitter clones” in response to a submit that identified that there are a number of social media networks which look much like Twitter. The purposes within the submit included Meta’s Threads, Twitter, Jack Dorsey’s new platform Bluesky, Mastodon and Publish Information.
A consumer acknowledged that Mr Dorsey made “two of the seven clones”. The Twitter Founder replied that Bluesky and Nostr “are protocols that Twitter can construct upon”. He added that they “would take away some constraints and burden. Not aggressive.” He additionally stated that BlueSky is a protocol that anybody can construct upon. “Not a clone,” he asserted.