After Threads Launch, Mark Zuckerberg Posts First Tweet In 11 years; Triggers Meme Fest

Hours after launching Meta's Twitter rival Threads, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg shared his first tweet in more than a decade, a playful jab at Elon Musk.

He shared the iconic Spider-Man facing-off meme which is an apparent reference to the rollout of Twitter's substitute. Interestingly, he did not add a caption to the post.

This is his first tweet since 2012 and comes days after Twitter CEO challenged the Meta founder to a cage fight. This has triggered a meme fest on Twitter.

Threads is a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides "a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations".

The app went live just after midnight Wednesday in the UK in Apple and Google Android app stores in more than 100 countries including the US, Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan.

The app went live just after midnight Wednesday in the UK in Apple and Google Android app stores in more than 100 countries including the US, Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan.

Users get a Twitter-like microblogging experience, according to screenshots provided to media, suggesting 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.

"Our vision is that Threads will be a new app more focused on text and dialogue, modelled after what Instagram has done for photo and video," the company said.

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.

Instagram users will be able to log in with their existing usernames and follow the same accounts on the new app. New users will have to set up an Instagram account.