This month, Threads announced that it reached 400 million monthly active users — nearly as many as X (née Twitter). That’s almost half a billion people. Threads is the Big Bang Theory of social media.

Threads, Meta’s Twitter/X competitor and the company’s first bet on decentralized social media, is now making it easier for users to control their Threads experience. After launching a customizable ...

Earlier this month, Meta launched Threads, a new text-based social media platform. It’s the latest in a parade of social media apps vying to replace Twitter, which some nonprofits quit after ...

Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

Instagram’s Twitter/X rival Threads is furthering its expansion into the fediverse — the interconnected social network that includes apps like Mastodon, PeerTube and others running the ActivityPub ...

Threads, Meta's alternative to X, formerly Twitter, had almost everything it needed to succeed. It's backed by one of the biggest of the Big Tech companies. It's directly integrated with Instagram, ...

Meta is changing the Threads experience on the web for users to enjoy, and this starts with the arrival of its new domain, Threads.com. Previously, users on the web had to access the text-based ...

X, formerly known as Twitter, is seeing user growth slow to a crawl since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk bought the social media platform for a staggering $44 billion in mid-2022. X's daily active ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Meta has been taking heat for engagement-bait posts on Threads, but the company is sticking by ...

At long last, brands on Threads can buy ads. Well, a small group of brands, anyway. Almost a year and a half after Threads first hit the internet in July 2023, Meta is finally starting to flirt with ...

This month, Threads announced that it reached 400 million monthly active users — nearly as many as X (née Twitter). That’s almost half a billion people. Meanwhile, Big Bang Theory delivered ...