On July 2nd, Elon Musk announced that Twitter would temporarily limit the number of articles users can read in response to concerns about data scraping and system manipulation in extreme situations. This action has sparked dissatisfaction within the community.
On July 6th, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, officially launched its new application called Threads. Threads integrates the decentralized social media protocol ActivityPub, based on Mastodon, and allows users to log in using their Instagram accounts. It aims to compete with Elon Musk's Twitter.
One of the advantages of Threads is that Instagram has a massive existing user base. When Instagram users create an account, they can choose to immediately add users they are already following.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, stated that within the first seven hours of launching Threads, over 10 million users have registered.
In a minor incident, Threads encountered several bugs and received reports of users experiencing accessibility issues within the first hour of its launch.