New Delhi: Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Thursday appealed to the Twitter community to stick together after being alarmed by the rapid surge in popularity of Instagram Threads, which reached 30 million users within no time.
“Whether you’re here to watch history unfold, discover real-time information all over the world, share your opinions, or learn about others — on Twitter, you can be real,” Yaccarino posted on Twitter.
“You built the Twitter community. And that’s irreplaceable. This is your public square,” she added.
Concurrently, Meta’s Twitter rival Threads amassed more than 3 crore (30 million) users in just 12 hours, as per Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s CEO and Founder.
Yaccarino said that we are often imitated, “but the Twitter community can never be duplicated.”
A frustrated Twitter user replied to her: “I think we’re about to find out it’s actually pretty replaceable. You guys treated users too poorly”.
“Zero per cent surprising they got to 30 million users in 12 hours. People have been searching for a life raft for months,” posted Greg Kamstra.
Zuckerberg said keeping the platform “friendly will ultimately be the key to its success”. Musk responded: “It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.”
Zuckerberg posted: “It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully, we will.”
