As Threads has gotten to 100 million sign ups since launching the middle of last week, Elon Musk’s freak out continues. Twitter only has about 250 million active users at this point, and Twitter’s website traffic is also “tanking”, according to the chief of the internet services company Cloudflare, amid signs users are migrating to alternative platforms such as Threads, BlueSky and Mastodon. Musk has threatened to sue Meta, and now…after challenging Mark Zuckerberg to a cage match, he Tweeted over the weekend ‘Zuck is a cuck.’ Zuckerberg posted back on Threads ‘Concerning,’ followed by a laughing emoji. According to the Guardian, Musk also allegedly Tweeted a challenge to Zuck to ‘a literal dick-measuring contest.’ In launching Threads, Zuckerberg said: “The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands. I think it’s possible and will ultimately be the key to its success. “That’s one reason why Twitter never succeeded as much as I think it should have, and we want to do it differently.”

Prime Day starts tomorrow, and as always there are already deals. Not only that, there are deals other places, as retailers try to compete with the online giant’s big summer sale. Cnet.com notes that Target’s Circle Week started Sunday, Walmart Plus Week started today, as did Best Buy’s Black Friday in July sale. If you are up for bargains, get your plastic ready and to quote Fry in the cartoon series ‘Futurama,’ “Shut up and take my money!”

Apple is working with a 32 inch screen iMac…according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. In his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said these iMacs are still in early development, so he does not expect them to launch until late 2024 or at some point in 2025 at the earliest. One of these days we are going to run out of desk space…no wonder Apple has the Vision Pro on the way, where you can have several large virtual monitors floating in front of you! A 32 inch iMac would be the same size as Apple’s high end Pro Display XDR, which sells for a wallet-crushing $4,999. No word at this point on how much more the 32 incher will be than the now discontinued 27 inch iMac, but it will be a fraction of the price of that Pro Display. 

The virtual bloom may be off the virtual rose to a degree. ChatGPT saw its first user decline in June. Engadget.com reports that mobile and desktop traffic for the website dropped 9.7% globally. Waning interest in ChatGPT appears to be part of an industry trend. Similarweb’s numbers show fewer people visiting the desktop and mobile websites for Microsoft Bing, Google Bard and Character.AI in recent months. Some are speculating the drop off has to do with the end of the school year. Also, a number of companies have banned employees from using it, fearing that proprietary company data will be chewed up by the artificial intelligence and be available all over the net. The chatbot maker isn’t worried…they have said it costs ‘an eye-watering amount’ to operate, so seem to be ok with the breathing room.

I’m Clark Reid, and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.