Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform that launched in 2023 as a challenger to the Elon Musk-owned X, for the first time beat X in global daily active mobile users for the month of October, ...

Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform that sought to capitalize on user frustration with the Elon Musk-owned X, overtook its competitor in daily active users on mobile devices worldwide for ...

Meta’s Threads is on a roll. The social networking app is now home to more than 400 million monthly active users, Meta shared with Fast Company on Tuesday. That’s 50 million more than just a few ...

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New data from digital market intelligence company Similarweb shows Threads a close second to X when compared by number of worldwide daily active users on iOS and Android. For June 2025, X had about ...

After recently being spotted testing a way to share longer text, Threads, Meta’s X competitor, is now officially rolling out the feature that allows users to attach up to 10,000 characters of text to ...

For a long time, if you were looking for a "real time" social media app to use to keep up with news stories and major pop culture events as they happen, there was only one choice: X, the platform ...

Instagram's Threads is rapidly closing the gap with X in mobile daily users. - Photo by Anna Barclay/Getty Images Threads, It looks like Instagram's Twitter alternative, is catching up to X in daily ...

While X is still the microblogging champion in web browsers, multiple reports are making Threads' ascent seem durable and convincing. Reading time 2 minutes Say what you will about the social media ...

Since deciding to stop using X (it’s no longer the Twitter I knew and loved for a long time), I’ve been testing out various alternatives. And for me, there are two clear front-runners: Bluesky and ...