Mark Zuckerberg said that 10 million people had signed up in just the first few hours. Meta has today launched a new app called Threads, which looks like a pretty direct rival to Twitter. Tom Wainwright: I'm not sure this physical fight is necessarily going to go ahead. The bigger worry really is advertisers add revenues this year at Twitter and predict it will be more than a quarter down on where they were last year.
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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