Bray and Lair are on WNYC, so since Elon Musk took over Twitter, as you know, he's implemented

or overseen changes that have frustrated many loyal users, like reinstating accounts previously

banned for violating user guidelines.

He laid off about half of Twitter's staff, resulting not only in those lost jobs, but

in more bugs and outages on the site for users, and this may be why a handful of Twitter

alternatives have since emerged as new or more prominent.

Maybe you've heard some of these names are on these platforms yourself, spoutable,

spill, blue sky, mastodon, but none have made quite the splash that Threads has.

Threads, as you've probably heard by now, boasts something that none of these other Twitter

rivals does.

CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who adds to a portfolio that already, of course, includes Facebook

and Instagram.

Zuckerberg says, 100 million people signed up for Threads within its first week.

Who among you listening right now has signed up for Threads?

212433 WNYC, how would you compare it to Twitter if you were also using that?

Will you now use both?

Will you use them for different things?

One is one ethically suspect, tech mogul, any better than another, to get your social

media from.

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We'll talk about the new site, whether it Threads to kill off its old musky rival, and

what it means that one company, led by Mark Zuckerberg, now owns three social media services

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