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Meta pounces on a weakened Twitter with its new micro-blogging platform. But do we really need yet another place to overshare?

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John L. Micek
Jul 09, 2023
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Sometime on Wednesday night — and into Thursday morning — my Instagram stories feed started filling up with screenshots and slides of friends and colleagues who’d just signed up for something called “Threads.”

A little Googling and screen-tapping revealed that this almost-entirely-but-not-quite-like Twitter interface was, in fact, Meta’s n…

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