Threads is Meta's New Twitter Killer

This was a crazy week for social media apps, but first the gang talks about the Zenfone 10 now that Andrew has had a chance to use it for a week or two. Then they talk about YouTube testing and Twitter implementing a (temporary?) rate limit on the same Reddit officially started charging for its API. After that, it's all about Threads. The new Twitter-clone that that Meta just launched which Marques had early access to for the last few days. He gives his first impressions on the app and talks about what makes it interesting before we end it all with some trivia. Follow us on Threads if you have the app! Links below.

Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:55 Zenfone 10 and small phones 11:38 YouTube testing blocking ads 17:38 Trivia question 18:04 Babbel (Sponsored) 19:08 More Twitter and Reddit chaos 22:05 The Reddit API changes began 27:42 Twitter rate limits 35:52 Trivia question 37:11 Ad break 37:13 Threads discussion 57:43 Trivia answers 01:01:42 Outro

Topics discussed: MrWhosetheBoss video: https://bit.ly/mrwhosethebosssmallphones YouTube blocking ads: https://bit.ly/youtubeblockingads Bloomberg Threads in the EU: https://bloom.bg/439Pji5

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