Elon Musk has announced yet again changes to the once most loved microblogging platform, Twitter. This time, the changes are not about features or paywalls but the name. Somehow we expected this. Mr. Elon announced on a Sunday that Twitter will soon shade its feathers, and the iconic Twitter bird will be replaced by X. By Monday US time, x.com was already pointing at twitter.com.
Twitter has been the talk of the internet in the past few weeks. This follows massive changes imposed by the platform’s boss, Elon Musk, which irked the app’s loyal users. Twitter’s declining popularity as a leading microblogging platform was recorded days after Elon Musk acquired it.
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30 Million Users in 24 hours? What You Need to Know about the New Twitter Rival App, Threads
The Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, states that Threads’ primary purpose is to create a friendly online space where users can freely create conversations. The app is also meant to amplify Instagram, but it’s more inclined to sharing texts, ideas, and what is on people’s minds.
Earlier on, Twitter published more limits to alleviate its behind-the-scene operations and reduce downtime. Some of these limits include 500 direct messages to be sent daily, 2,400 tweets per day, 400 follow limit, and account-based follow limits once a user follows 5,000 users.
WhatsApp allows you to customize privacy to fit your chatting needs. For instance, you can choose who you can share your profile picture with, who can see your status, or even chat with you. If you only need contacts that are saved on your phone to chat with you, so be it.