Elon Musk Revives Popularity of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

Threads, the new text platform by Meta, was launched earlier than anticipated, providing a public community for users to engage with their followers and import friends from a social messaging app. The decision to enter Twitter’s domain raises questions about Meta’s motivations and potential benefits from this strategic move.

To explain this move, you’d have to say that Threads won’t exist in 2023 unless Elon Musk buys Twitter in a reported $43 billion deal and causes the platform more than ever before. Musk has argued that Twitter will become better and remain transparent to different perspectives.

But little by little, we’ve seen the platform become a mess, and not just because the app stopped serving content from the people you follow. Things didn’t stop there. Twitter now wanted people to pay for features like the edit tweet button, uploading videos in 1080p quality, and getting the once-elusive Twitter confirmation badge, or blue tick. If that wasn’t bad, Musk decided to make it worse by limiting the number of accounts you see in your feed per day, and then made TweetDeck part of the paid service.

All of these moves have kind of helped people decide to switch from the platform, and unlike when they only had Mastodon as their only option, Meta and Instagram have rolled out the red carpet with Threads, which is so hard to believe it seems to have made Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook cool again .

Meta’s CEO has already claimed that Threads has received 5 million signups in just the first few hours, showing that people have been clamoring for a Twitter alternative, and it feels like a breakthrough moment for Zuckerberg and Co., who have been wanting to bring such a platform for years.

Zuckerberg has been caught up in so many Facebook privacy nightmares and then his attempts to monetize WhatsApp. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Zuckerberg got a timely opening thanks to Musk and his attempts to change Twitter for the worse.