No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here

Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future. #tech

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html

No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here

Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.

Independent.ie
Another "Brexit benefit"!
I think the correct response to this is: LMAO
Good. Keep up the pressure!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Whelp Brexiteers, the Zuck is going to know EVERYTHING about you 🤣

@demvoter @fulelo Are we finally going to see those "Brexit benefits" and get Threads accounts in the UK before those boring Europeans? 🤣
@bensb @demvoter boring european here :-) gdpr still a British thing too though
Just going to remind you that we STILL don't have the fancy Instagram messaging in the UK because of the GDPR. Not sure how exactly the GDPR is hampering us being able to react to a message with more emoji than just a heart, or be able to reply to specific messages - but thats what Instagram claim is the reason it's not available anywhere that has the GDPR
I was seeing a lot of people saying that Threads was going up to be the real Twitter killer now, but if it can’t launch in the EU, that’s going to hamper it a lot. But we’ll see - the two biggest twitter markets are the US and Japan, and it’s launching in both. That might be enough to give it a foothold before it can fix it for the EU.
It's apparently going to be iOS only on release too, no website and no Android app lmao