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Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X; Trump Phone Review; Maine's Senate Race Implodes

Jul 9, 202618:59Technology

Threads recently hit 500 million monthly users, putting it on par with X — but is it really competing, or just filling a different niche? Meanwhile, the reviews have been coming in for the Trump-branded T1 phone in recen...

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Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X; Trump Phone Review; Maine's Senate Race Implodes is an episode from Gadget Lab: Weekly Tech News by WIRED. Threads recently hit 500 million monthly users, putting it on par with X — but is it really competing...

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Published Jul 9, 2026, 18:59 long, audio available.

Meta’s Threads Rivals Musk’s X; Trump Phone Review; Maine's Senate Race Implodes

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