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Threads: Deleting your Threads account means deleting your Instagram account

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Meta's new app, "Threads," has stormed into the scene making a big splash in the media.

The app is aiming to challenge Twitter's dominance. Released on July 5th by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, "Threads" enters the conversation-based app arena just as Elon Musk, who acquired Twitter last year, sparked controversy by limiting non-paying accounts to only 600 tweets.

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