Mark Zuckerberg was way behind. The head honcho of Facebook had not posted on Twitter since January 2012. But after eleven years of absence, the more than 592,000 people who still follow him on the application were able to enjoy a return in the form of a low blow to his rival Elon Musk. he now owns the social network.
It was with a famous image, which became a meme on the internet, that Mark Zuckerberg made his return to Twitter: two Spiderman face to face pointing at each other. Actually, this is a thinly veiled hint about the launch of the new Threads app.
many similarities
On the night of Wednesday the 5th to Thursday the 6th of July, the Facebook group featured Threads. Conceived and presented as an alternative to Twitter, the application heavily incorporates the codes of its competitor. First, because of how it works, but also because of its name and logo.
The new microblogging platform, not available in Europe at the moment, allows you to post messages within a news channel. Users have the option to add photos or videos to their text, which is limited in length. Everything is covered with features well known to Twitter netizens: a “like”, “comment” and “repost” button.
The Threads logo is an at sign. This symbol is used on Twitter to designate a user by their unique identifier. As for his name, it means “son” and designates in his competitor the series of tweets published one after another.
Therefore, there are many similarities between the historical Twitter and its new competitor Threads. This is what Mark Zuckerberg points out with his publication of the two Spiderman staring at each other.
Above all, this post is part of a series of pikes thrown on both sides between the Facebook kingpin and Elon Musk. The latter accused Zuckerberg of playing copycat with Threads. The two rivals are also planning to meet in a fight. A very serious proposal for which the owner of Twitter believes that he needs “a lot of training”.
Source: BFM TV
