Can Threads unravel Twitter?

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🗓️ 12 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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As Meta launches its Twitter competitor, The Verge’s David Pierce says that we are watching the end of the social internet in real time. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael with help from Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It began, for me anyway, on a sultry Wednesday.
0:04.2	I logged on to Twitter against my better judgment,
0:07.4	and everyone was talking about Mark.
0:09.8	Mark Zuckerberg just posted on Twitter for the first time in 11 years.
0:15.2	The Spider-Man meme.
0:17.0	Of all things, the Spider-Man meme.
0:19.8	Who are you? Who are you? Who are you?
0:21.6	Which I'm me, who are you?
0:24.2	What did it mean?
0:25.6	The Twitter Adi said it was a clever reference,
0:28.0	a message to Musk, a threat?
0:30.6	Maybe something new?
0:32.6	Certainly, threads.
0:34.4	An app to rival Twitter from Facebook creator Zuckerberg's meta-excessible via your Instagram.
0:40.8	Millions of people signed up within days so quickly that records were broken.
0:46.2	So some say, is social media broken?
0:49.2	Maybe dying?
0:50.8	Coming up on today, explained, laughter at a funeral.
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