Right now, we’re witnessing the greatest rivalry this world has known; a battle between two rich guys and their social media platforms. This rivalry is that of Twitter versus Threads. Well, according to The Daily Beast, it seems that people are really enjoying Threads, even Twitter’s own employees.
Mark Zuckerberg recently celebrated crossing the 100 million user line not too long ago with Threads. That’s both impressive and not, as Threads basically runs off of the backend of Instagram. If you have an Instagram account, you have a Threads account.
However, to Threads’ credit, people seem to be enjoying the app despite its missing features and algorithm. The app is going to improve as time goes on, so you can bet that more features are going to drop soon. In the meantime, you can sign up for the beta program on the Play Store to test out new features.
Twitter’s employees have been sewn into Threads
Elon Musk has been on a crusade to bad-mouth this latest (and biggest) competitor in the microblogging space. Threads came onto the scene a week ago, and it’s already amassed a ton of users. Most of those users, at least for the first couple of days, spent their time talking about Elon.
The Daily Beast took a random sample of 133 Twitter employees (as per their LinkedIn account), and it found that 31 of them were actively on Threads. That’s about a quarter of the sample size, and it shows that Twitter’s employees aren’t against using the competition.
Even Ester Crawford took to Threads and started criticizing Musk over his leadership. If you’re curious who that is, she’s the one who broke headlines months ago by sleeping on her office floor at the Twitter HQ to get more work done. She was let go from the company, regardless.
Several of the Twitter employees using Threads are going much the same thing, laying into their boss (former boss, in Crawford’s case) while at the company. You can imagine some of them Threading during their lunch breaks.
Elon doesn’t know…yet
Elon hasn’t responded to this news just yet. We don’t know what the billionaire will do when he finds out about this, but it won’t be pretty. Just hope that he doesn’t ban his employees from using the platform.