Meta takes aim at Elon Musk’s Twitter, to announce rival app Threads

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, revealed Monday a new “conversation” app called Threads, which appears to mimic Twitter – a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.

A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple’s App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday, July 6. It is billed as “Instagram’s text-based conversation app,” with the listing teasing a Twitter-like microblogging e