- Elon Musk took to Twitter to air his grievances on Instagram after Meta launched its new app, Threads.
- Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has been outspoken in his want to dethrone Twitter with Threads.
- Musk mentioned he most well-liked being attacked on Twitter than having to fake to be completely satisfied on Instagram.
Elon Musk is not taking the launch of Meta’s Twitter rival very properly — he took to Twitter on Wednesday to dunk on the Meta-owned Instagram whereas customers poured into Mark Zuckerberg’s brand-new platform, Threads.
“It’s infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge within the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram,” Musk tweeted on Wednesday.
Musk was replying to a tweet from a Twitter consumer named Internal Tech Emails, who posted a screenshot of Musk’s e mail about Instagram dated August 21, 2018.
“I simply deleted my Instagram. Weak sauce,” the e-mail learn.
Musk did delete his Instagram account again in 2018, and was not a fan of the platform.
Meta launched its new text-based app, Threads, on Wednesday. Customers flocked to Threads: Greater than 5 million folks signed as much as be part of the platform within the first 4 hours of its launch, per Zuckerberg.
And Zuckerberg has been outspoken about his want to do higher than the Musk-owned Twitter. He additionally spent the primary hours of Threads’ existence posting sassy zingers about Musk.
“It’s going to take a while, however I feel there ought to be a public conversations app with 1 billion+ folks on it. Twitter has had the chance to do that however hasn’t nailed it. Hopefully we’ll,” mentioned Zuckerberg when a Threads consumer requested if the platform might beat Twitter.
For his half, Musk beforehand expressed his scorn at Meta’s try and kickstart a Twitter rival. This in some way spiraled right into a weird sequence of occasions, the place he challenged Zuckerberg to a cage match to settle their beef within the ring. Zuckerberg has accepted Musk’s problem, although it’s unclear when or the place such a battle would happen.
Representatives for Musk at Twitter responded to a request for remark with an automatic response that did not deal with the questions requested.
