Mark Zuckerberg – Meta platform Inc‘s CEO, has strengthened his grip on his newly launched application— Threads, and Twitter rival threads rate limits – in a bid to rescue himself from the Twitter owner’s ‘copy cat’ taunt.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri wrote on threats, the newly found alternative to Twitter, and reveals the implementation of rate limits in order to get rid of the increasing string of spam attacks.
Although directed towards controlling the spam, the rates limit had the unexpected result of potentially preventing active users on Threads.
Reciprocating to this news, the owner of the social media platform couldn’t control himself from making fun of the situation, and in this peculiar fashion, musk stated – “Lmaoooo copy cat”.
Consequently, Mark Zuckerberg revealed his optimism and brought back focus on refinement of the basics and retention of the application.
For those who do not know, initially this year, Twitter chief Elon musk implemented rate limits on the application in order to combat the prevalent data scraping along with system manipulation that was plaguing the micro blogging site.
In the beginning, it was thought to be a temporary advancement to deal with extreme situations of abuse, however, the billionaire owner further loosened the restrictions, which enabled the Twitter blue subscribers specifically, to be able to access more tweets on a daily basis.
Notwithstanding the fact that the decision by the Twitter owner initially caused a huge backlash and criticism which gave way to Meta CEO to launch a rival app called threads. In less than a week, the newly app launched app gained more than hundred million users signing up. However, the reports now signal a significant decline in the daily signups and usage time on threads – which makes it clear that the rage has settled a lot quicker than envisaged.
Earlier this month, the two tech titans also were in talks to be engaging in a cage battle which people have been eagerly waiting for weeks.
Six days after, Elon Musk commented on the user’s tweet on Twitter, “It has now been six days since the CEO of that other app made a post. Did he give up on it already?”
Not leaving any opportunity to make a banter, Musk said, “He doesn’t seem to care about his new product.”
Soon after when Zuckerberg posted on his newly launched app, Musk tweeted, “after forgetting about his app for a week, the CEO of that other app has finally made a post. He is really burning the midnight oil LOL.”
It seems that the rivalry between the two tech behemoths seems to unfold into a new saga – where parallels are drawn and comparisons are made between the two platforms. In retaliation to musk‘s tweet, Zuckerberg did not stay far behind in ridiculing his business rival and his beloved Twitter app.
Musk – who acquired Twitter last year in a $44 billion deal did not surrender and continued to fight back from his own platform. Threads started with a huge pomp and success soon after. But as the days go by, the initial bustle seems to have fizzled out.
