Meta, an American IT giant and Facebook operator, has announced that it plans to offer a new SNS to post and share sentences from the 6th. Experts say that as Twitter, which has been widely used to disseminate information, continues to be confused and moves to other services, it could be a turning point for the change of SNS used by many people.
According to Meta, the new SNS "Threads" will be available in more than 30 languages such as English and Japanese from the 6th, as it can post and share sentences like Twitter.
In Japan Japan, Twitter is currently widely used not only by individuals but also by local governments and companies to disseminate information and provide disaster prevention information, but on the 1st of this month, due to fraudulent activities in data collection on the Internet, measures were announced to limit the number of views of posts per day, and users voiced their dissatisfaction. There was also a movement to move to SNS with functions equivalent to Twitter.
Commenting on these developments, Associate Professor Shinichi Yamaguchi of the International University of Japan, who is an expert on SNS, said, "Some people feel that convenience is being compromised by Twitter's successive specification changes.
On top of that, he said, "I think Meta will start offering the service thinking that there is a chance of winning, and this move may be a turning point."