Meta, the owner of Facebook, is shaking up social media with an app some are calling the 'Twitter killer'. 
 
Threads will offer a very similar service, but it will be powered by the massive machine Mark Zuckerberg has built since starting FaceMash, as Facebook was first known, in his university dorm room.  

In the battle between the tech titans Twitter owner Elon Musk has been making a few moves of his own – but none of these have been well-received. 
 
So who will come out on top? And perhaps, more importantly, do either of these contenders have what it takes to defeat a rapidly rising TikTok?
  
Today on The Front Page, Melanie Spencer, the group CEO of advertising and marketing company Thompson Spencer helps Damien try make sense of the scrappy battle for social media.

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