Category Threads

Meta has announced a raft of updates for its Twitter clone Threads, including an option to add topics that you’re interested in to your profile, updated topic tagging for posts, reply controls, a video UI update and more. First off,…

Threads is working on another way to encourage people to follow other users in the app, with a new “Interests” field now available on some user profiles. As you can see in this example, shared by app researcher @faslu_35, some…

While it may not be for everyone, Meta’s Twitter-clone Threads is clearly onto something. The app is now up to 320 million active users, and is gaining growth momentum, while Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently reiterated his view that it…

As Threads continues to grow, and become a more viable replacement for what Twitter had once been, it’s also looking to lean into the latest usage trends and habitual shifts, in order to maximize user activity. And with that, there…

Threads is adding another highly-requested element, with Threads chief Adam Mosseri today announcing that all users will soon have a dedicated “Media” tab on their profiles. As you can see in this example, Threads is adding the “Media” tab, which…

Here’s a simple, but handy Threads update. Today, Threads has launched profile tagging for photos in the app. As per this example, now you can add tags to images shared in the app, so you can link through to other…

It may not have reached a billion users just yet, but Meta has decided to launch ads on Threads anyway, with initial testing to begin with selected users/brands in the U.S. and Japan. As explained by Meta: “Starting today, a…

Threads’ first update of 2025 could be one of its most popular yet, with the Threads team currently developing a new option that would enable you to add a display name to be used within Threads specifically, as opposed to…

One of the most highly requested Threads updates is coming, with the platform set to launch a test of scheduled posts direct within the Threads app. As you can see in these example screens, Threads users will soon be able…

Threads continues to linger in the most downloaded app charts, with Meta’s Twitter-like platform sitting at number 6 overall for November, which was the same spot that it occupied in the October downloads ranking. As you can see in this…