Key Points
The app will allow users to follow the accounts they follow on Instagram and use the same username..
Meta, Instagram's parent company, is aiming to take advantage of Twitter's problems since Elon Musk took over.AP..
Instagrams highly anticipated Twitter rival is expected to launch Thursday, according to a listing on Apple Inc.s App Store...
The app, called Threads, will function similarly to Twitter, with text-based posts that can be liked, commented on and shared, according to examples of screenshots on the App Store listing..
More than 3 billion people daily used at least one of Metas apps Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in the first quarter of the year, the company reported in April...
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