One place Threads won't be rolled out is in the European Union, which has strict data privacy rules. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey pointed it out in a snarky tweet saying, "All your Threads are belong to us" that included a screenshot of the disclosure. Threads could collect a wide range of personal information, including health, financial, contacts, browsing and search history, location data, purchases and "sensitive info," according to its data privacy disclosure on the App Store. RELATED: Twitter plans to relax ban on political advertising Meta's new offering, however, has raised data privacy concerns. Meta emphasized measures to keep users safe, including enforcing Instagram's community guidelines and providing tools to control who can mention or reply to users. New users will have to set up an Instagram account. Instagram users will be able to log in with their existing usernames and follow the same accounts on the new app. RELATED: People spent 24% more time on Instagram after launch of AI-powered Reels, Zuckerberg saysÄespite that, Meta said its "vision is that Threads will be a new app more focused on text and dialogue, modeled after what Instagram has done for photo and video." Posts are limited to 500 characters, which is more than Twitter's 280-character threshold, and can include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long. On Threads, there are buttons to like, repost, reply to or quote a thread, and users see the number of likes and replies that a post has received. "That's one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently," he wrote. Zuckerberg said in some early replies on Threads that he's focused on making the app "a friendly place," which will "ultimately be the key to its success." The Twitter-like microblogging experience suggests that Meta Platforms has been gearing up to directly challenge the platform after Musk's tumultuous ownership has resulted in a series of unpopular changes that have turned off users and advertisers. RELATED: Meta Platforms' Instagram reportedly has Twitter competitor app in the works
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