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Threads of engagement

Meta's new platform needs a clear business model

Threads to add $8 bn to Meta annual revenue by 2025, says analyst

Instagram's new app, designed as a direct rival to Elon Musk's Twitter, signed up 100 million users in the days since Meta launched the service last Wednesday

Elon Musk claims lawyers overbilled in fight to make him buy Twitter

Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, among most profitable firms in US, exploited a brief, vulnerable period just as Musk was closing $44 bn deal, according to complaint filed in San Francisco state court

The cry of the wounded in movies reflects real life in India

'Aakrosh' (1981) depicted how India's tribal people, almost 8% of the population, are dehumanised by the state and the law

Twitter accuses Threads of using its trade secrets, threatens legal action

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a "copycat" app. Since launching Threads Wednesday night, Meta's new app has collected tens of millions of sign ups. The app, which was created by the company's Instagram team, arrives at a time when many are looking for Twitter alternatives to escape Elon Musk's raucous oversight of the platform since acquiring it last year for USD 44 billion. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone responded to the report of Spiro's letter on Threads Thursday afternoon, writing, "no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee that's just not a thing". In the letter, which Semafor first reported on Thursday, Spiro s

Threads: 30 million join Meta's Twitter rival, says Mark Zuckerberg

Text-based app seeks to rival Twitter, will be an extension of Instagram

Mark Zuckerberg posts first tweet in 11 years in Threads jibe at Musk

Meta's Instagram officially unveiled Threads, considered most potent threat yet to struggling social media service Musk owns. Hours later, Zuckerberg tweeted photo of identical Spider-Men facing off

Instagram Threads: Everything you need to know about Meta's Twitter rival

At a time when Twitter is undergoing big changes under Elon Musk, Meta launched Threads in 100 countries on Thursday as Twitter rival. Here is all you need to know about the app

Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud to step down; Adam Gross named interim chief

Sud, who was appointed to the position in 2017 after previously serving as general manager and head of marketing, is leaving to pursue a new opportunity, according to the statement

Instagram unveils Threads app, a serious threat to Elon Musk's Twitter

The app will let users port over their existing follower lists and account names from Instagram, Meta's photo and video-sharing app that counts major creators among its more than 2 bn users

'Many B2C brands have shifted their focus to influencer marketing'

The authenticity of influencer marketing is in that it is driven by the users themselves, not dictated by brands: Ramya Ramachandran, founder, Whoppl.

Instagram to launch text-based conversation app Threads to take on Twitter

A user has to have an Instagram account to sign up for Threads, where the Instagram username will be used on the Threads app

Trai meets OTT platforms over measures to curb pesky calls, phishing

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) held a meeting with WhatsApp, Telegram, Meta and Google to devise measures to check pesky calls and messages, and phishing attempts

Twitter rival Threads hasn't appeared in EU app stores ahead of launch

App stores in some European Union countries, including Germany and Belgium, weren't displaying Threads as of late Tuesday

Judge blocks US govt from working with social media cos on protected speech

A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about protected speech, a decision called a blow to censorship by one of the Republican officials whose lawsuit prompted the ruling. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted the injunction in response to a 2022 lawsuit brought by attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri. Their lawsuit alleged that the federal government overstepped in its efforts to convince social media companies to address postings that could result in vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic or affect elections. Doughty cited substantial evidence of a far-reaching censorship campaign. He wrote that the evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario. During the COVID-19 pandemic, a period perhaps best characterised by widespread doubt and uncertainty, the United States Government seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian Ministry

TweetDeck users to get verified in 30 days or face restrictions: Twitter

Twitter users will need to get their account verified for using collaborative and content creation platform TweetDeck, the social media company said on Tuesday. TweetDeck allows users to manage multiple accounts from a single dashboard as well as collaborate with other users for creating content on Twitter without sharing passwords. "In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck," Twitter Support said in a tweet. Access to TweetDeck is free as of now but its users will now have to shell out money to access it with new rules mandating verification of account. Twitter charges Rs 650 per month or Rs 6,800 annually on the web from verified accounts. Twitter said that it has temporarily disabled the "Teams" functionality, which helps collaborate with other users, and will be restored in the coming weeks. In a new version released on Tuesday, users will need to import their TweetDeck columns the first time they launch the application. The new version of the application will sup

Before cage match, Zuckerberg's Twitter rival Threads to enter the ring

With the launch, Meta is seeking to take advantage Twitter's problems since the social media service was taken over last year by Elon Musk

WhatsApp may soon allow users to send videos in high-quality: Details here

WhatsApp would continue to use the standard quality setting by default, but allow users to select the high-quality option each time they want to share a video

Govt employing influencers: Death knell for professional news media?

The development will likely hasten the decline of the legacy media while providing a viable revenue model to hitherto economically unstable social media news and entertainment purveyors

Tweet reading limits: 'Elon Musk needs to find a balance', say experts

They believe this may curtail civil rights and impact during disaster management scenarios