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Threads: What Fashion Needs to Know About Meta’s New Twitter Challenger

Meta’s social network, which launched Wednesday, is the biggest competitor yet to the Elon Musk-owned platform and potentially gives fashion an important new channel for reaching audiences.
The Threads app sits open on an iPhone with the Threads logo in the background.
Threads, Meta's new Twitter challenger. (Getty Images)

Whether or not Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk ever actually square off in a cage match, their companies are already brawling.

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Should Fashion Quit Twitter?

Balenciaga was the first major label to bail on the troubled social network. Others will need to weigh how valuable the platform is to their business before deciding whether to follow the luxury brand's lead.

Finding Fashion Consumers Beyond Instagram

Once considered fringe, platforms like Reddit, Discord and Twitch are attracting the attention of digital marketers aiming to diversify their channel mix away from Instagram.

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Marc Bain
Marc Bain

Marc Bain is Technology Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. He is based in New York and drives BoF’s coverage of technology and innovation, from start-ups to Big Tech.

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