Instagram Threads launch: Mark Zuckerberg just tweeted for the first time in 11 years

Mark Zuckerberg's first tweet in 11 years is a Spiderman pointing to Spiderman meme.

Mark joined Twitter back in 2009 (Image credit: Twitter)

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Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, has been on the microblogging platform Twitter for over a decade. However, he recently made his first tweet in 11 years using an iconic Spiderman pointing to Spiderman meme, indirectly announcing the launch of the Twitter alternative, Threads.

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— Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) July 6, 2023

Threads is the latest microblogging social media platform developed by Meta to take on Twitter. According to Zuckerberg, the platform has already attracted over two million users in just two hours. He also predicts that Threads will soon become the mainstream public conversation app with over one billion users.

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In a Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg, he explains that the platform has been designed with a vision to create an open and friendly public space for conversations. Threads takes the best features from Instagram and incorporates them to provide a new and unique experience, allowing users to create posts, and upload photos and videos.

In just seven hours, about 30 million people joined the app, Mark Zuckerberg shared on the app.

Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, mentioned that Threads lightly ranks posts and provides recommendations from unfollowed accounts, which is considered an important aspect of the new platform.

Threads was officially launched on July 6, although Mark Zuckerberg seems to have had access to it earlier, as his first post on Threads dates back to July 4. Currently, Threads is available for download on both Android and iOS platforms through their respective app stores.