Threads is also going to have a bit of a head start in achieving that kind of scale. It seems that anybody who already has an Instagram login is going to be able to use that to log into threads and instantly be able to follow it. And perhaps most importantly, about 87% of people on Twitter already have an Instagram account.
If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features and platforms—and it is a propitious time to steal Twitter’s thunder. Deeply indebted Arab countries desperately need loans from the IMF, but have good reasons to balk at the fund’s terms (10:00). And New Yorkers love their invasive parakeets; the birds’ enormous nests, less so (18:41).
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