Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads, Meta's (META) -) response to Twitter, on July 6. In the five days since its launch, the new text-based platform has surpassed 100 million users.
ChatGPT held the previous record for the fastest-growing user base, hitting 100 million users in two months.
The launch of Threads has also poured gasoline on the feuding fires between Twitter owner Elon Musk and Zuckerberg.
DON'T MISS: The Long and Bitter War Between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg
The feud between the two tech moguls goes back to at least 2016, when a SpaceX rocket carrying a Facebook satellite blew up on the launch pad, destroying the satellite and raising Zuckerberg's ire.
Though the two have traded verbal blows over the years, the feud reached a new level when Musk learned that Zuckerberg was working on building a Twitter alternative. The Tesla (TSLA) -) CEO recently challenged Zuckerberg to a cage match, which Zuckerberg agreed to.
Now, it seems Musk wants to compete in a different kind of contest with his rival.
I propose a literal dick measuring contest 📏
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 10, 2023
Musk's latest insult against the ninth-richest man in the world came in response to a Threads post from Wendy's, which suggested Zuckerberg should "go to space just to really make him mad."
Musk's tweet has been seen more than 26 million times.
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This latest round of verbal sparring comes just days after Twitter sent (META) -) a cease-and-desist letter, accusing the Instagram parent of illegally copying Twitter in order to create Threads.
The letter goes on to allege that Meta hired former Twitter employees with the sole purpose of tapping into Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property, something a Meta source has said is simply untrue.
Musk at the time wrote in a tweet that "competition is fine, cheating is not."
