Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is on the stand today in Meta’s antitrust trial. In trying to prove the social network is not a monopoly, he shared that the Threads app could have been just a feature ...

Threads was a kind of extension of Instagram when it launched in 2023. However, over time, the reliance of Meta’s X rival platform on Instagram has waned. Now, Threads is getting its own DM inbox, ...

Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.

Meta was initially developing Threads as just a feature for the Instagram app, reveals Adam Mosseri. He said that text posts inside Instagram could be confusing to users. So the Meta team behind the ...

Threads hit 500M users by tapping Instagram’s built-in audience, showing Meta’s true asset is its distribution pipeline, not apps.

It appears that social media might be moving away from opaque systems that predict user interests, and instead are handing over the reins for users to decide. Platforms like Threads, […] ...

Threads users have been requesting for native DM feature since its launch. Meta has finally decided to bring the feature, with testing starting this week in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Argentina. It will ...

Meta $META’s Threads is marking its two-year anniversary by adding direct messaging and a new visual highlighter feature, as the company continues efforts to ...

Will Instagram Threads truly integrate with the fediverse, also known as the open social web, to allow its users to interact with people on other services like Mastodon and to move their account ...

Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Messenger are coming back online after widespread "technical issues" took down many of Meta's biggest apps for several hours Wednesday. "We're 99% of the way there – ...