Meta’s Twitter Rival “Threads” Isn’t Launching in the EU

[Tsing]

Does the world really need another Twitter? Meta seems to think so, having developed a new alternative to the Musk-led platform called "Threads" (an Instagram app), but unfortunately for fans of Mark Zuckerberg and company, not everyone will be able to try it, with a spokesperson for Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) now having confirmed that it isn't coming to the country nor the rest of the EU—at least, for now. That said, the new app, which is free and described as "Instagram’s text-based conversation app," should be available for US and UK users to download beginning today.

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[MadMummy76]

Yeah, because it even more blatantly harvests your data it is incompatible with GDPR.