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More than 5 million people signed up to join Meta’s new “Threads” app within the first four hours of its launch on Wednesday, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced, an early sign that the Instagram offshoot may pose a serious threat to Twitter which has recently been marred by technical glitches and unpopular changes.
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In the first two hours after its launch, around 2 million people signed up for Meta’s Twitter rival, and in the next two hours that number grew to 5 million, Zuckerberg wrote in a post on Threads.
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