Clone wars: Meta’s Threads takes on Twitter
Economist Podcasts
The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitter’s thunder. Deeply indebted Arab countries desperately need loans from the IMF, but have good reasons to balk at the fund’s terms (10:00). And New Yorkers love their invasive parakeets; the birds’ enormous nests, less so (18:41).
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
| 0:12.1 | So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development. |
| 0:22.4 | Yours calling. |
| 0:24.2 | Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways holidays take your holiday. |
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| 1:06.2 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. |
| 1:11.8 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 1:19.8 | A number of Arab states are deeply in debt, albeit for different reasons. |
| 1:25.1 | We examine Egypt, Lebanon, and Tunisia as case studies in why going |
| 1:29.6 | to the IMF for help isn't the obvious solution that it once was. And how about going on safari? |
| 1:38.2 | In Brooklyn, to spot parakeets. We look at just one of America's thousands of invasive species, one that |
| 1:46.2 | builds nests so large they've become a genuine fire hazard. But first... Elon Musk. |
| 2:06.6 | You just never know what kind of crazy thing the owner of Twitter is going to say next, which I guess is the way he wants it. |
| 2:13.6 | But this recent one in a tweet about the boss of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, |
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