Given that Meta, the developer behind the app, the company formerly known as Facebook, makes its money from tracking and profiling web users to sell their ...
Meta also introduced cheat codes on Instagram to allow people to sign up for a download ahead of time, teasing the release to its billions of users. img-7942.
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk averted a cage fight last month, but the companies they oversee -- Meta and Twitter, respectively -- are now squaring off in ...
Multiple screenshots of the new Threads app in action. Users of Threads, which Instagram unveiled on Wednesday, will be able to directly import the list of ...
Meta today officially launched Threads, the new social media app that it has been working on as an alternative to Twitter. Threads was meant to...
On Threads, we are told that posts can "easily" be shared between the two apps and can include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes in length. Users will have a feed of posts, which Meta calls "threads", from people they follow and recommended ...
Facebook behemoth Meta officially launched Threads, its text-based rival to Twitter, on Wednesday — but its release in Europe has been delayed over data ...
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has delivered a blow to Elon Musk, ramping up the tech billionaires' rivalry with the launch of Instagram's much-anticipated ...
Launch of social media platform puts Mark Zuckerberg in direct competition with Elon Musk.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg has delivered a blow to Elon Musk, ramping up the tech billionaires' rivalry with the launch of Instagram's much-anticipated ...
Meta has unveiled an app to rival Twitter, appearing to target users looking for an alternative to the social media platform owned – and frequently changed ...
Stewart Sowman-Lund joins Instagram's new Twitter knock-off, Threads. Ever since Elon Musk swooped into Twitter and set about destroying it step by step ...
Instagram's Threads app, a text-based social media platform poised to become Twitter's latest competitor, is now available to users in more than 100 ...
Meta's new app benefits from its billion-plus Instagram followers that give it a huge shot in the arm.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday that his Threads app, a micro-blogging competitor to Elon Musk's Twitter, had more than 10 million sign-ups in ...
Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday officially launched its Twitter competitor, Threads, after first confirming its plans for the app just three months ago.
Meta's new app has been listed in the US and the UK, but has no foreseeable launch date in the EU yet as the company worries about the bloc's privacy ...
The app is pretty similar to Twitter, but it's missing a key feature: a feed that only includes posts from people you follow.
Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides "a new, separate space for real-time updates ...
Meta already has more than 3 billion users across its stable of apps (which include Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp), and is making it easy for its existing ...
Meta's highly anticipated Twitter alternative must work hard to attract and reassure brands that it is a safe space to operate and advertise.
Its owner Elon Musk says "competition is fine, cheating is not" a day after the rival app launches.
Thirty million users have signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app on its first day, the company's chief Mark Zuckerberg says.
ANALYSIS: With more than 10 million downloads in its first few hours, Threads looks to be a social media juggernaut – but does it live up to the hype?
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith is a Gen Z culture reporter for Stuff. ANALYSIS: There's a new social media platform in town – and it wants you to get off Twitter.
Meta's microblogging app is intuitive, has already been downloaded by millions of people, and has other advantages over Twitter's would-be rivals.
On Wednesday, Threads' launch day, Mark Zuckerberg posted about his desire to usurp Elon Musk's broken social network: “I think there should be a public ...
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