Twitter is preventing links to Instagram Threads, a rival ,According to reports.

&NewLine;<p>Linda Yaccarino&comma; the recently hired CEO of Twitter&comma; is responding to claims that Twitter traffic is decreasing as a result of the introduction of a new rival&comma; Instagram Threads&period; She disputes the decline&comma; but it appears that <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;twitter&period;com" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener" title&equals;"">Twitter<&sol;a> is doing something to counter the threat that Meta&&num;8217&semi;s competitor platform might pose&period; Users have claimed that links to Threads&period;net in Twitter searches are being selectively blocked by Twitter&comma; making it more difficult to locate conversations or user profiles on Threads&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s Discriminatory Blocking of Links from Threads&period;net<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>When he searched for &&num;8220&semi;url&colon;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;threads&period;net" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener" title&equals;"">threads&period;net<&sol;a>&&num;8221&semi; on Twitter but got no hits&comma; technologist Andy Baio spotted the change&period; Normally&comma; this operator would show tweets that had links to the chosen URL&comma; however it now seems to be disabled&period; Even without the operator&comma; tweets mentioning threads&period;net or users&&num;8217&semi; usernames on the site are returned&comma; but direct connections to threaded conversations are absent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Links from Competitors Were Previously Blocked on Musk&&num;8217&semi;s Twitter<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Twitter has already restricted links to sites owned by rival businesses&period; The platform restricted those links when Substack released its conversation feature&comma; Substack Notes&comma; by making it impossible to comment to&comma; like&comma; or retweet&period; However&comma; at least for the time being&comma; the current blockage of Threads links doesn&&num;8217&semi;t go that far&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Tensions Between Musk and Zuckerberg<&sol;strong><br>Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg&&num;8217&semi;s feud has been more heated as a result of Musk&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;cage match&&num;8221&semi; challenge and Twitter name-calling&period; While this is going on&comma; Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has adopted a less combative stance&comma; emphasising Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s surge in traffic in an effort to reassure advertisers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Questions Arise About Twitter Traffic As Threads Increase<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Yaccarino&&num;8217&semi;s claims of record Twitter usage are puzzling given that multiple data indicate a fall in platform traffic after the introduction of Threads&period; According to data from online analytics company Similarweb&comma; Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s website traffic decreased by 5&percnt; over the first two days of Threads&&num;8217&semi; availability compared to the prior week&period; These conclusions were reinforced by further information&comma; such as tweets from Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Despite Threads&&num;8217&semi; swift growth in popularity because to Instagram&&num;8217&semi;s social graph&comma; its long-term prospects are still unclear&period; Similar spikes in demand for new apps frequently subside after the initial phase of experimenting&period; Mastodon&comma; a Twitter rival that peaked at 2&period;5 million monthly subscribers before falling to 1&period;9 million&comma; was a clear example of this&period; Mastodon&comma; on the other hand&comma; has recently experienced growth as a result of Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s difficulties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Zuckerberg hastily released Threads&comma; even before its online version was completely working&comma; to take advantage of Twitter&&num;8217&semi;s difficulties&period; The app has surpassed rivals like<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;softwaremania&period;in&sol;latest-news&sol;how-to-use-the-chatgpt-api-to-train-an-ai-chatbot-with-a-custom-knowledge-base&sol;" title&equals;""> ChatGPT<&sol;a> in terms of growth&comma; surpassing 100 million users in just five days&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><&sol;p>&NewLine;