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Bibhu Pattnaik

Jack Dorsey Mocks Mark Zuckerberg For Sending A Follow Request On Threads: “Too Soon”

MIAMI, FLORIDA - JUNE 04: Jack Dorsey creator, co-founder, and Chairman of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square speaks on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a crypto-currency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood on June 04, 2021 in Miami, Florida. The crypto conference is expected to draw 50,000 people and runs from Friday, June 4 through June 6th. PHOTO BY JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES

Engagement on Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ: META) social media app Threads has seen a significant drop in daily active users and time spent on the app, despite hitting 100 million users in just five days.

Amid the news, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, playfully took a jab at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg when he received a follow request from him on the new platform.

On Saturday, Dorsey posted a screenshot on Twitter showing Zuckerberg’s follow request on Threads. “Too soon b,” he wrote in the post’s caption.

Earlier this month, Dorsey criticized Meta’s product for resembling the microblogging platform. In response to a tweet highlighting the similarities between Twitter and other social media networks (including Meta’s Threads, Dorsey’s new platform Bluesky, Mastodon and Post News), Dorsey tweeted, “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones,”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies remotely during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled, “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election” on Capitol Hill on November 17, 2020 in Washington, DC. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is also scheduled to testify remotely. PHOTO BY HANNAH MCKAY/GETTY IMAGES

One Twitter user, however, took the opportunity to say that Dorsey was responsible for creating “two of the seven clones.” In response, Dorsey clarified that Bluesky and Nostr were protocols designed for Twitter to build upon. 

 

Produced in association with Benzinga

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