Meta's Twitter competitor Threads reaches 100 million sign-ups in 5 days, Mark Zuckerberg reacts

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It was earlier reported that Threads had crossed millions of downloads within 24 hours of launch..

Threads launched at a time when Twitter had introduced some major changes like limiting the number of tweets people could view each day, restricting those without an account to view tweets, and so on..

However, as far as Threads is concerned, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri says that the new platform isn't a replacement for Twitter...

Instead, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company's focus is on creating a 'public square for communities on Instagram that never really embraced Twitter and for communities on Elon Musk-run platform that are interested in a less angry place for conversations, but not all of Twitter'..

Politics and hard news are inevitably going to show up on Threads they have on Instagram as well to some extent but were not going to do anything to encourage those verticals, the Instagram CEO wrote on Threads...