What Next TBD: Threads vs. Twitter

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Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It seems like with each new Musk innovation, a new Twitter replacement appears in response. But Threads is backed by Meta and available in just a few clicks for an Instagram user. Could it be the one? Guest: Mike Isaac, technology reporter for the New York Times. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me. When
0:22.9	you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:30.0	Just a quick heads up, this is a fast-moving news story. As we put the finishing touches on this show,
0:36.7	Twitter threatened to sue meta over over the Threads app.
0:40.8	Also, there's a little swearing in this episode. Okay, here's the show.
0:51.0	Meta's new app, Threads, wasn't supposed to launch this week.
0:56.8	The company had been working on the Twitter competitor for about six months, but still wasn't
1:01.6	ready to unveil it.
1:02.7	We're actually supposed to launch it at the end of the month.
1:06.4	Then Elon decided to go crazy mode and rate limit people's posts on Twitter and everyone got very upset,
1:15.6	so they moved up the launch a few weeks.
1:17.6	That's Mike Isaac, who covers tech for the New York Times.
1:20.6	He says the launch was a little messy, especially getting it onto the app store.
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