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With Meta’s Twitter competitor set to launch in just a few days time, there are still a lot of questions about how it’ll work. 9to5Google has dug through its APK to try and find some answers.

Meta is teasing a July 6th launch for its Twitter competitor Threads in the Instagram app. Type “threads” into its search box and a small ticket icon will appear that links to an animation showing a 10am ET launch time.

It’s been up for more than 12 hours and already has nearly 19 million views. The person who uploaded says they’ll be posting more movies and is soliciting requests for which ones.

That’s according to a report from Financial Times that I missed last week — she may do it the first week of August in a Twitter Spaces room.

Over the weekend, decentralized microblogging service Bluesky said it was halting signups after issues at Twitter prompted a flood of new users to join and create stability issues. But as of today, that limitation has been reversed.

Turns out if you do not pay your bills, you will get sued and asked more forcefully to pay those bills. Twitter finally paid its Google Cloud bill (though the current state of the platform might suggest otherwise), but it looks like there are still some outstanding payments the company has been letting slide.

Has Elon Musk forgotten that instead of paying to read more on Twitter, people who run into the new limits can just do something else? Despite his posts and retweets about touching grass, it looks like another side effect of monopoly brain, as mentioned in this April episode of The Vergecast.

Twitter user Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who’s been publishing leaks about Meta’s upcoming Twitter clone, tweeted early this morning that the app had been released, but it was taken down sometime later.