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Meta rolls out ‘Live Chats’ feature on Threads amid growing competition with X
Meta is introducing a new ‘Live Chats’ feature on Threads to bring real-time conversations to the platform. The feature allows users to join public, event-based chats where they…
Meta launches X-like ‘Communities’ on Threads
Meta has rolled out a new feature called ‘Communities’ on its Threads platform, designed to bring users together around shared interests. The feature (currently being tested globally on…
Meta tests new long-form text feature on Threads as it looks for more users
Meta’s microblogging app Threads is testing a new feature that allows users to post long-form text directly within the platform. Currently available in a trial phase on the…
Meta’s Threads tests content blurring for posts
Threads, Meta’s alternative to X, has now commenced a test deployment of a new feature, one that enables users to obscure potentially revealing content, including both images and…
Meta testing video ads on its X alternative ‘Threads’
Meta is accelerating its revenue push from Threads, this time with the introduction of video ads to its text-based social media platform. Meta is now testing the aforementioned…
Meta introduces ads on Threads in limited test
Advertisements will soon make an appearance in Threads, the X-alternative app that social media giant Meta had launched one-and-a-half years ago. The parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook and…
Zuckerberg says all of Meta’s platforms will “get rid of factcheckers”
With Donald Trump returning to the White House, tech companies are taking accelerated steps to ensure alignment with the new regime, or risk being thrown to oblivion under…
Meta-owned Facebook, Instagram, and Threads suffer global outage
Meta’s family of apps were today hit with an outage, resulting in Facebook, Instagram, and Threads experiencing issues and being down for several thousand users globally. From the…
Meta’s Threads is testing integration with Mastodon for interoperability among social platforms
In a new development, Mark Zuckerberg recently announced a pivotal test for Threads, Meta’s latest venture into the social media sphere. The experiment sets out to integrate Threads…
Meta’s Threads takes aim at misinformation with fact-checking program ahead of big elections year
Meta, the parent company of Instagram, is fortifying its fact-checking efforts, extending them to the attached social media app, Threads. Threads, launched earlier this year, is gearing up…
Meta set to introduce web version of Threads
Threads made a spectacular debut last month, and even though the surge of users kind of fizzled out after an explosive debut, social media company Meta continues to…
X deliberately slowed down access to Threads, Bluesky, NY Times and others, before reversing it: Report
For all the talk of Elon Musk being a “free speech absolutist,” he seems to be (once again) engaged in a feud with platforms he actively dislikes. A…
Threads’ much-requested Following feed is finally here
Threads – Meta’s answer to Twitter – has proved to be an instant hit. Now, a few weeks after its launch, the text-based social network is rolling out…
Threads soars to 100 million users in five days, way faster than ChatGPT or any other internet platform/app
It’s official – Threads has surpassed 100 million users well within five days of its launch. Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that Instagram’s newest standalone…
[Updated] Twitter-rival Threads takes off, clocks millions of sign-ups barely hours after launch
[Update]: Instagram head Adam Mosseri teased the arrival of several “basic” features on the Threads app. These include Search, hashtags, a following feed, messaging, graph syncing, and support…
Meta’s Twitter competitor, Instagram ‘Threads’ goes live on iOS, Android
Instagram ‘Threads’, the Twitter competitor from Facebook-parent Meta, that is aiming to capitalise on the disgruntled Twitterati crowd, has gone live on iOS. A notification put for pre-order…