Category Threads

Can Meta maintain its planned political distance in the upcoming election campaign? Apparently, this is a question that even those within the company are now debating, following a weekend in which political news dominated the headlines. In the wake of…

Meta’s added another way for developers to integrate Threads into their own websites, with a new “Web Intents” element of the Threads API, that will enable direct engagement with Threads from a third party site. Web Intents facilitates direct connection…

Meta’s looking to tackle content theft on Threads by experimenting with a new feature that would make it easy for users to re-share media in the app, while still giving credit to the original poster. As you can see in…

Threads has released some new elements to celebrate its first anniversary, while it’s also shared new insight into how people are using the app, which now has over 175 million monthly active users. First off, as you may have noticed,…

Can you believe that Meta’s Twitter-like Threads app is a year old already? The text-based social app, launched in order to gather up cast-offs from Elon Musk’s X project, has risen to become a genuine player in the social media…

Will this spark the beginning of a new explosion in Threads posts? Today, Meta has announced that the Threads A.P.I. is now available to all developers, which will enable creators and publishers to schedule posts, manage replies, and more via…

An article from Users can now track the latest discussion points as they come up, which could be a big winner for the app. Here’s a small, but potentially relevant platform update. After adding live scores for NBA games back…

This is interesting in the broader context of the hashtag usage debate among social media creators that’s happening right now. Over the past few months, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has been reiterating to all who’ll listen that hashtags don’t increase…

After testing out its new Tweetdeck-style UI for Threads on desktop over the past few weeks, Meta has now announced that it’s rolling out the new threads.net on desktop globally, providing more customization and monitoring options for Threads users. As you…

Threads is taking another step towards becoming a replacement for Twitter, by adding a chronological filter within search results in the app. As Threads Chief Adam Mosseri notes, Threads is rolling out a “Recent” tab in Search, which will enable…