Threads
When social media gets stuck between a rock and hard news
IT might be 2024, but the fiefdom of online political discourse is looking mighty Shakespearean. Stage right, you have social media platform X raving like a 17th-century Habsburg prince. Stage left, i...
Threads hits 175 million users on first anniversary
THREADS, Meta’s alternative to X (formerly Twitter), has hit 175 million monthly users a year after its out-of-the-blue launch.
Apple removes WhatsApp, Threads from China app store on government order
APPLE said on Friday (Apr 19) that it had removed Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so by the Chinese government, which cited national security...
Meta rolls out Twitter rival Threads in the EU
FACEBOOK owner Meta’s text-based app Threads arrived in the European Union on Thursday (Dec 14), months after its global launch in July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said.
White House launches Threads account for Biden, Harris
THE White House on Monday joined the social media platform Threads, the Meta rival to Elon Musk’s X social media platform.
Zuckerberg says ‘time to move on’ from Musk cage fight challenge
MARK Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms, said it’s “time to move on” from speculation that there will be a cage fight match between him and Elon Musk.
Meta plans retention ‘hooks’ for Threads as more than half of users leave app
META Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark...
Meta's Threads could lure ads from Twitter but it's early days, analysts say
Threads, Meta Platform’s broadside to Twitter, is seen by some advertisers as less contentious and more predictable than Elon Musk’s platform, and analysts say it could lure away marketing budgets – e...
‘Meta loses more’: Zuckerberg takes Threads fight to EU
US tech titan Mark Zuckerberg has plunged into a high-stakes game of brinkmanship with the European Union by withholding his new Threads app from users in Europe, but analysts say he will struggle to ...
Meta’s Instagram to bring branded content tools to Threads
META Platforms’s Instagram is planning to bring its branded content tools to Threads, Axios reported on Tuesday (Jul 11), citing a source familiar with the matter.
