User traffic on Twitter has slowed since the launch of Meta’s text-based platform Threads, which has already surpassed 100 million sign-ups since its debut last week. Threads launched in the U.S. on ...

In a development first reported by news website Semafor, Twitter has threatened a potential lawsuit against Meta over Meta's new Threads app. A lawyer for Twitter sent a letter to Meta, addressed to ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk averted a cage fight last month but the companies they oversee -- Meta and Twitter, respectively -- are set to square off in direct competition. Meta, the parent company ...

Meta Platforms launched Threads a year ago as Mark Zuckerberg’s bid to capitalize on the struggles of Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. Since then, the long-running feud ...

The story so far: In July 2023, the Instagram-based app Threads exploded with a burst of enthusiasm from users desperate to flee Elon Musk's X, the app formerly known as Twitter. That faded in the ...

Meta late Wednesday debuted a social media app called Threads that the social media giant describes as "Instagram's text-based conversation app." The new service, which looks set to compete with ...

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Spiro offered no concrete examples of Twitter employees using trade secrets to build the app, which notched millions of users within hours of its launch. But the message — sent on same day that ...

Meta's new Twitter competitor Threads has exploded in growth in its first full day since its public debut Wednesday night, fueled by Instagram's already massive userbase. The text-based social media ...

Threads hit 30 million sign-ups as of Thursday, Zuckerberg boasted in a post. “Feels like the beginning of something special, but we’ve got a lot of work ahead to build out the app,” the CEO wrote.