First post contradicts Trump
Biden registers on X-competitor threads
November 21, 2023, 7:11 a.m
In July, Meta launched Threads in an attempt to replace Musk’s Twitter successor, X, as the mouthpiece. Now the platform is getting a particularly prominent addition: US President Biden. In his first post, he is optimistic about America’s future.
US President Joe Biden opened an official account on Monday on the online platform Threads, which is a competitor to Elon Musk’s short message service X, formerly Twitter. “Folks, this is President Biden,” said the first post Biden published there on his 81st birthday. “You are hearing from me today on a new platform, but my message to you has not changed,” the Democrat wrote.
“I don’t see a bleak, bleak, divided future for America. I see an America that’s about to take off,” Biden continued on Threads. In doing so, the president, who is aiming for another term, differentiated himself from his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, who had made statements about a “decline” of the USA. The US company Meta, which is also behind the online services Facebook and Instagram, launched Threads in July in an attempt to replace Musks X, then still Twitter, as a mouthpiece for celebrities and governments.
The White House said it had also set up Threads accounts for Biden’s wife Jill, Vice President Kamala Harris, her husband Doug Emhoff and the White House itself in English and Spanish. “Threads is an additional way we can communicate with the American people about this administration’s historic actions to create 14 million jobs, reduce the cost of (…) medicine, protect freedom and much more,” said a White House official.
On Friday, the White House accused Musk of spreading anti-Semitism because of a controversial message on X and sharply criticized the multi-billionaire.