![]() ![]() Twitter is serving up a stream of irrelevant posts that its algorithms have incorrectly assumed will be engaging, whereas Threads’ algorithmically driven feed is largely populated by random influencers being banal. Will Threads win?įor a long-time user of Twitter and a recent sign-up of Threads, neither seem any good at the minute. But cloning the whole service that Twitter provides is a step further. Zuckerberg has previously copied features shamelessly from popular rivals, trying to cut off advantages of the likes of Snapchat and TikTok. Musk is furious that Zuckerberg is simply copying Twitter, and it must be infuriating, because it has been performed skilfully and with perfect timing. In February, AI tool ChatGPT was tearing up the record books as the fastest app to hit that same milestone, having taken two months.Ī joke of sorts, of course, but one fears it wouldn’t take too much of an aggressive response from Zuck for the town square to be frozen in horrified silence by a livestream starting with the unbuckling of Musk’s Wranglers. Launched last Thursday, Meta is now reporting that more than 100 million people have signed up, which in anyone’s language is staggeringly fast. ![]() But the Twitter wars have seen tech’s leading men embrace their idiocy.Īfter years of making himself look like a misguided nerd, desperately building himself a cool party – or an empty metaverse – to rule over, Mark Zuckerberg (or Zuck as he would like you to call him) seemingly has a success on his hands with his Twitter rip-off Threads. Aresna Villanuevaīack in the innocent old days of 2021, you could comfort yourself that engineers in Blue Origin mission control were probably laughing themselves silly at their boss blasting through the firmament in his space helmet, unaware of the self-parody. “Hold my beer” as the meme merchants like to say.įorget cage fighting, the rivalry between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk is getting ever more juvenile. Then 2023’s peacocking contest between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg began. When Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos blasted off into space in 2021 aboard a rocket straight from the Dr Evil school of phallic design, it seemed like the era of the non-self-aware tech bro had reached its zenith. ![]()
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