Threads

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• Rhymes: -ɛdz

Threads

1. A social media platform developed by Meta, integrated into the fediverse.
   • 2023 July 5, Geoffrey A. Fowler, Naomi Nix, “What we love and hate about Threads, Meta’s new Twitter clone”, in Washington Post:

     On the one hand, Threads has a decent chance of becoming a — maybe even the — major new hub for text-based online conversations. Unlike other would-be Twitter rivals Bluesky and Mastodon, Threads arrives with a potential audience of billions who already use Meta’s photo and video-oriented Instagram, which Threads is built on top of.

   • 2024 April 4, Michelle Mark, “Meta's Threads app: The text-based social media platform from Instagram trying to replace X”, in MSN‎^[1], archived from the original on 28 May 2024, Business Insider:

     The point of Meta's Threads app is to read and engage in public conversations. On Threads, users can post a "thread" — usually a short piece of text — and other users can "like," repost, or reply to the thread.

   • 2025 January 25, Andrew Hutchinson, “Meta Announces Initial Test of Ads on Threads”, in Social Media Today:

     Meta did initially suggest that it wouldn’t look to launch ads in Threads till the app reached a billion users, though initial Threads ad formats were spotted in testing in August last year.

• → French: Threads

• Threads (app) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English Threads.

• IPA^(key): (from least to most anglicized) /tʁɛd/, /tʁɛdz/, /sʁɛdz/

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1. Threads
   • 2023 July 4, “Meta lancera Threads Jeudi, son rival de Twitter [Meta launches Threads on Thursday, its rival to Twitter]”, in Le Téléjournal, spoken by Andrée-Anne St-Arnaud, via Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

     Cette semaine, c'est jeudi que la société mère de Facebook, Meta, va lancer son application, Threads, c'est une application de microblogage similaire à celle de Twitter, donc, on découvrira tous les détails jeudi.

     This week, on Thursday the parent company of Facebook, Meta, will release its application Threads, which is a micro-blogging application similar to Twitter, so, we'll find out all the details on Thursday.

   • 2023 July 6, “Ce que l’on sait de Threads, nouveau concurrent de Twitter lancé par Meta [What we know about Threads, the new Twitter rival launched by Meta]”, in L’Union‎^[2]:

     Mais le modèle même de Threads, qui s’appuie sur une relation étroite avec Instagram avec consolidation des données d’un même usager sur les deux services, pourrait ne pas satisfaire aux critères du DMA.

     But Threads’ very model, which relies on close integration with Instagram and combines user information from both services, may not satisfy the criteria of DMA.

   • 2023 July 12, Tara Deschamps, “Rodriguez laisse la porte ouverte à la réglementation du nouveau Threads de Meta [Rodriguez leaves open possible regulation of new service Threads from Meta]”, in La Presse Canadienne, Montreal:

     Le ministre du Patrimoine canadien laisse la porte ouverte à une réglementation de la nouvelle plateforme de médias sociaux Threads dans le cadre du projet de loi obligeant Google et Meta à indemniser les médias d'information pour les nouvelles qu'ils partagent ou réutilisent d'une autre manière sur leurs plateformes.

     The Minister of Canadian Heritage left open the door to regulation of the new social media platform Threads as part of a bill to oblige Google and Meta to compensate media organizations for the use of information shared or used in other ways on their platforms.

   • 2024 November 12, “Bluesky, réseau social rival de X, prend son envol [Bluesky, social media rival to X, takes off]” (2:04 from the start), in CBC News (French), Toronto, via Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

     Sur l’App Store d’Apple au Canada, l’application figurait mardi au deuxième rang des réseaux sociaux gratuits les plus téléchargés, devant Threads de Meta, un autre rival de X.

     In the Apple App Store in Canada, the application was the second most downloaded free social media app on Tuesday, ahead of Threads from Meta, another rival of X.