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Meta explains why the NYC/NJ earthquake didn’t trend earlier in the day

That's not to say people weren't discussing the earthquake on Threads — many were.

The text-focused social network — and Meta’s answer to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter — missed a moment to shine on Friday when users once again turned to X to discuss the New York/New Jersey area earthquake. Said former CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, in a 2016 Harvard Business School newsroom interview, “… I was in the office on a Saturday, and my phone buzzed, and it was a tweet, and it said simply, ‘Earthquake.’ Immediately after that I actually felt the tremors in San Francisco. Threads may have 130 million monthly active users, making it the largest player in the “fediverse,” the social network of interconnected servers and services including Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, PeerTube and others.

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