Biden’s first post on Meta’s X (previously Twitter) competitor harkens again to his 2020 presidential victory speech with references to the nation’s divisions and its present “inflection point.” Harris gestured to her travels all through the US and her having met “over 100” world leaders, and Emhoff wrote about gender fairness and “countering hate of all kinds.”
Biden and firm signing up is a good signal for the platform. Before its title change, Twitter had far fewer common customers than greater platforms like Facebook. But it tended to draw influential folks of all stripes, together with political leaders. Biden becoming a member of doesn’t imply Threads will change into a 1:1 substitute for the Twitter that was, however it might point out that it has potential as a information supply — whether or not it desires that or not.
According to a statement provided to Axios, the brand new Biden administration accounts don’t preclude their participation on Elon Musk’s platform. Even so, X’s struggles to retain advertisers have gotten worse within the final week as heavy advertisers, together with Apple and the European Commission, abruptly left following a Media Matters report that highlighted hate speech on the platform Musk’s obvious assist of it.
