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 ...

Threads, a text-based app built by Meta to rival Twitter, is live. The app, billed as the text version of Meta's photo-sharing platform Instagram, became available Wednesday night to users in more ...

Threads is one of the two big platforms that materialized in 2023 as alternatives to X/Twitter when Elon Musk really started remaking it in his own image. Bluesky developed an unmistakable identity as ...

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 ...

What comes up must come down — at least in the case of user engagement on Threads, Meta’s new Twitter competitor. Last week, the text-based social media platform reported a record 100 million sign-ups ...

Meta will officially release Threads, its text-based Twitter competitor, on Thursday, but for those who want to get ahead of the launch, there’s a way to access your invitation now. The social media ...

The feature, called "Dear Algo," lets Threads users personalize what content they see by publicly posting an AI prompt.

(Bloomberg/Ashley Carman) — Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads will launch podcast previews, or the ability to upload snippets of shows that play directly in user feeds, as part of a broader effort to ...

Meta has come under fire in recent days from social media users startled to discover they’ve been automatically enrolled in a relatively new setting that reduces “political content” on Instagram and ...