Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, July 18th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

It's been almost two weeks. Let's check in on how Threads is doing.

Streaming players continue to raise prices.

Microsoft still plans on fighting for its prize are the incumbents winning the AI race

and the interesting startup that wants to use

light instead of electricity in computer chips.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Let's check in on threads. Let's do a thread on threads. According to

similar web, threads usage has dropped by half after its initial surge. Dows were 49 million in its first week and that's

now down to 23.6 million more recently. And guess what? Threads seems to be having a problem that might sound

familiar. Adam MacSarey says that spam attacks on threads have picked up so

Meta is tightening things like rate limits and is warning of quote

unintentionally limiting active people going tech crunch it looks like Twitter

isn't the only one having to turn to rate limits or limits on how many

post users can view.

It's an amusing turn of events.

Twitter's latest rival Instagram threads announced this afternoon that it too has to tighten

up on rate limits due to spam attacks.

L. L. M. A. A. A. O. C. A. O. Copy cat. Cat. Em emoji, end quote.

Instagram Head Adam MacSary explained the problem

in a post on the Threads app this afternoon,

noting that spam attacks have picked up

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