Hours after launch of Meta's thread, Zuckerberg uses Twitter for first time since 2012
Hours after Mark Zuckerberg rolled out Threads on Thursday — days after Twitter CEO Elon Musk came under fire for limiting the number of tweets people could view per day — the Meta founder posted on Twitter for the first time in over a decade, taking a jab at Musk.
Meta officially launched Threads earlier today — apparently
capitalising on the extensive backlash Musk has faced fire for his recent
policy changes on Twitter.
Not long after the launch of Threads,
Zuckerberg took to Twitter — roughly 11 years after his last tweet — to
share a famous meme of identical Spider-Men facing off.
— Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) July 6, 2023
This tweet is Zuckerberg's first since 2012 and comes two weeks
after the news that the two CEOs were interested in a cage fight.
Hours after Zuckerberg's tweet, Musk retorted with a jab on
Instagram.
Taking to his own platform, he wrote: "It is
infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge
in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram."
Elon Musk on Instagram
— Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails) July 6, 2023
August 21, 2018 pic.twitter.com/VlvasDuUHP
It is clear that the Meta CEO is capitalising on controversial
decisions made by Twitter CEO.
Musk — who acquired the company for $44 billion in October —
downsized the company soon after he took over and fired thousands of
employees.
He then changed content moderation policies and made
Twitter verification a paid service, putting users and advertisers through
several technical challenges.
Moreover, Musk's latest decision to
limit the number of tweets users can view daily — a measure Musk called
“temporary” in order to fend off data scrapers and bots — earned him great
backlash from users across the globe.
“There should be a public
conversations app with 1 billion-plus people on it,” Zuckerberg said in a
post on Threads.
“Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but
hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will.”
