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With Twitter in a complete, um, meltdown, it's only natural to wonder which upstart clone will become its consensus replacement. For habitual scrollers in Europe, the answer won't be Meta's new "Threads" platform.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's new bluebird imitation app is set to launch in the US and UK on Thursday, but its EU launch has been stymied, for now, due to the bloc's more stringent privacy and data-collecting laws, according to the Irish Independent. That's certainly not the type of launch-day press Meta was looking for.

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Source Fool.com