What is Threads? Your Guide to Meta’s New App

1. Facebook and Instagram's parent company, Meta, brought something new to social media!
2. Officially launching Threads, which has been dubbed as the “Twitter Killer” after confirming plans for the app just three months ago.
3. Threads is already breaking records, with 5 million sign ups in just 4 hours of going live. Making it the most rapidly downloaded app of all time But what exactly is Threads? How does it work؟ Here's everything you need to know about the app.
4. Threads is an app that is designed to be a space where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow. Whatever it is you’re interested in, you can follow and connect directly with your favorite creators and others who love the same things — or build a loyal following of your own to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world.
5. If you're a regular Twitter user, you'll notice the obvious similarities between the two apps: both have newsfeeds, heart-shaped symbols to allow users to 'like' other people's content, and the ability to repost. Some of the wording has been changed, however, with retweets called 'reposts' and tweets called 'threads'. A little bit suspicious, isn’t it? Mark Zuckerberg has openly said that Threads is designed to rival Twitter. "It’ll take some time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ people on it," he said in a Threads post. "Twitter has had the opportunity do this but hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we will."
6. What do you think of Thread and have you downloaded it yet? Tell us in the comments!