Twitter chaos leaves door open for Meta’s rival app

Meta’s Threads app and Twitter logos. Musk is facing a new challenge as tech nemesis Zuckerberg prepares to launch a rival app this week. — Reuters

PARIS: Elon Musk spent the weekend further alienating Twitter users with more drastic changes to the social media giant, and he is facing a new challenge as tech nemesis Mark Zuckerberg prepares to launch a rival app this week.

Zuckerberg’s Meta group, which owns Facebook, has listed a new app in stores as “Threads, an Instagram app”, available for pre-order in the United States, with a message saying it is “expected” this Thursday.