Kate Hawkesby: I think Threads is targeted to Millennials - they're welcome to it

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 11, 2023 · 3m

So more than a hundred million users have signed up for Meta's new Threads platform - making it the fastest growing online platform in history. Can you believe that?

How do more than a hundred million people still have so much to say that they need to say it on a whole new platform?

It was set up to rival Twitter; it's kind of a Twitter 2.0 but they’re trying to make it ‘kind’, they say.

Clearly they don’t understand how the internet works.

Anything that even for one moment purports to be ‘kind’ is corrupted eventually - the internet is just not a ‘kind’ place.

Even Instagram, which started…