Threads gains about 10 million signups within seven hours of the roll out

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Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday, looks to take on Elon Musk's Twitter by taking advantage of Instagram's billions of users

On Threads, people can post text and links and reply to or repost messages from others

In less than 24 hours, Threads attracted some 30 million users

Threads app received about 30 million signups as of Thursday morning

In a letter to Mark Zuckerburg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a “copycat” app

Mark Zuckerberg’s idealistic vision for Threads has been challenged from Day 1 by news junkies, politicians and other fans of rhetorical combat

Legal experts say while many companies have accused competitors that hired former employees and have a similar product of stealing trade secrets, the cases are difficult to prove

Threads has started with some built-in defense mechanisms for harmful content, as its user policies are the same as Instagram’s

Threads bears a strong resemblance to Twitter, as do numerous other social media sites that have cropped up in recent months as users have chafed at Musk's management of the service

At the peak of the outage, lasting over an hour, over 14,000 users reported issues with accessing Instagram, while around 7,000 and 2,700 users faced issues with Facebook and WhatsApp, respectively

This move comes shortly after Threads gained over 100 million sign-ups in just five days

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