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06/07/2023 04:06 GMT : Five million users join Twitter rival Threads in four hours

Five million users join Twitter rival Threads in four hours

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Meta's launched its much anticipated Threads app - widely seen as a rival to Twitter

The tech company Meta has launched its much anticipated Threads app which is widely seen as a rival to Twitter.

The new rival to Twitter - called Threads and launched by Facebook's owner Meta - gets off to a flying start. 

Tensions between the US and China are high - now, though, the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is in China on a three-day visit.

And outrage in India as a higher caste man is caught urinating on a tribal worker.

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