This threads launch comes after a chaotic week at twitter last friday twitter completely locked out people without accounts preventing them from viewing Public tweets. On saturday twitter abruptly placed limits on how many tweets its users could view. Confused users got error messages saying rate limit exceeded and cannot retrieve tweets. Elon Musk posted that unverified users should not be allowed to use the service.
Kara and Scott discuss Apple hitting a $3 trillion valuation, China announcing export restrictions on minerals used in the production of semiconductors, and GQ pulling an article critiquing David Zaslav. Also: Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads is officially here and racking in the downloads. A certain someone isn’t so happy about that. Plus, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction to prohibit certain communications between the Biden administration and social media sites. And a listener question on going from academia to the corporate world.
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