Right now we are witnessing the greatest rivalry this world has ever known; a battle between two rich dudes and their social media platforms. This rivalry is that of Twitter versus Threads. Well, according to The Daily Beast, it seems that people really enjoy Threads, even Twitter’s own employees.
Mark Zuckerberg recently celebrated crossing the 100 million user mark not too long ago with Threads. That’s both impressive and not, since Threads basically runs out of Instagram’s backend. If you have an Instagram account, you have a Threads account.
However, to Threads credit, people are enjoying the app despite the missing features and algorithm. The app will improve over time, so rest assured that more features will be coming soon. In the meantime, you can sign up for the beta program on the Play Store to try out new features.
Twitter employees are screwed into Threads
Elon Musk has been on a crusade to vilify this newest (and biggest) competitor in the microblogging space. Threads came on the scene a week ago and it has already gathered a ton of users. Most of those users, at least for the first few days, spent their time talking about Elon.
The everyday beast took a random sample of 133 Twitter employees (according to their LinkedIn account) and found that 31 of them were active on Threads. That’s about a quarter of the sample size, and it shows that Twitter employees aren’t opposed to using the competition.
Even Ester Crawford went to Threads and started criticizing Musk for his leadership. If you’re curious who that is, she’s the one who made headlines months ago for sleeping on her office floor at Twitter headquarters to get more work done. She was let go of the company anyway.
Several of the Twitter employees who use Threads do much the same thing while lying with their boss (former boss, in Crawford’s case) at the company. You can imagine some of them Threading on their lunch breaks.
Elon doesn’t know yet
Elon has not yet commented on this news. We don’t know what the billionaire will do when he finds out about this, but it won’t be pretty. Let’s hope he doesn’t ban his employees from using the platform.