Kemi Badenoch hails Brexit victory as EU bans new Meta ‘Twitter killer’ app

The Government has hailed the launch of Mark Zuckerberg’s new ‘Threads’ app, the so-called ‘Twitter killer’, as proof of one other Brexit victory.

The app launched within the US and UK at the moment, nevertheless the EU has blocked the app launching for residents throughout the bloc over allegations it doesn’t adjust to their ‘Digital Markets Act’.

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri bemoaned the EU forms, saying “complexities with complying with some of the laws coming into effect next year” was delaying their EU launch.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, the brand new app is already proving a serious hit within the nations that didn’t block the launch.

He posted on the platform this afternoon that they’d seen 10 million sign-ups inside its first seven hours.

A supply on the Department for Business and Trade has now informed the Express they’re chalking up the EU’s app blocking as a Brexit victory.

They mentioned: “Britain is open for business and ready to welcome new digital services”.

“Kemi Badenoch has committed to reforming and repealing as much EU law as possible and it’s a benefit of Brexit that Threads is now available to the UK public while not on offer on the continent.

“It also shows that the tired argument that the UK would find itself locked out of new product launches when not part of a bloc has been proven totally wrong.”

Politicians and journalists from throughout the spectrum signed as much as Threads all through the course of the day.

Senior Tories like Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Net Zero secretary Grant Shapps and levelling up minister Dehenna Davison all joined.

Shadow cupboard ministers and backbench Labour MPs additionally signed up for the service, together with activists and coverage wonks.

Mr Shapps’ first put up learn: “Threads launching today reminded me of when I was the first MP on Twitter. At the time few thought it would amount to much. Let’s see what we’re saying about Threads in 14 years time!”

Threads is the newest copycat rival to Twitter to have launched since Elon Musk took over the corporate in October 2022.

Last weekend a coding error brought on customers to hit a tweet restrict wall of simply 600 a day, until they have been paid subscribers, inflicting anger and frustration amongst customers.

Mr Musk’s strategy to content material moderation, and the abolition of verified customers, additionally brought on upset.

The Tesla billionaire additionally introduced that inside a month customers should pay to benefit from the Tweetdeck app, a desktop interface that gave energy customers entry to extra tweets and extra options.