Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The new app uses your Instagram login and supports posting 500-character text updates, photos, and videos. The ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads, a new social media platform for Instagram users, went live on Thursday and is taking aim at Twitter as a new option for people who don't like the changes Elon Musk has made ...

Why? Instagram Threads has the backing of Meta — the same tech giant behind Facebook, WhatsApp, etc. It also ties directly into the main Instagram app, which you probably already have an account for.

Threads is a social sharing platform that allows discussion and the sharing of ideas through text messages and operates similarly to X (formerly Twitter). Threads aims to offer a friendly environment ...

Update December 26, 2025: Threads has now started to roll out “Ghost Posts” these are essentially posts that will disappear after 24 hours. You’ll still be able to see them on your profile afterwards, ...

Twitter’s no good, very bad week just got worse. While Elon Musk was busy placing limits on the number of tweets users can now view each day, Instagram owner Meta was quietly preparing an imminent ...

Launched in 2023, Threads is a microblogging platform owned by Meta, the parent company of Instagram. Because of this connection, and because the company wants its existing user base to start using ...

Instagram Threads is rolling out users’ most-requested feature to date: the ability to message people directly, without having to switch to another app, like Instagram. The company said direct ...

A new text-based app has hit the social media scene. Meta, which owns Instagram and Facebook, rolled out Threads on Wednesday. The app was created by the Instagram team, according to Meta, and allows ...

Two days in, Mark Zuckerberg said Threads has registered over 70 million accounts, and it’s still growing. In an interview about Threads with The Verge, Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri explains why the ...

It’s an important question that Meta has conspicuously left unanswered, despite the Mark Zuckerberg-led social giant vowing last week to clamp down on the topic across both Instagram and Threads — an ...