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Meta will begin showing ads on Threads to users worldwide next week, with a gradual rollout that will continue for several months. Threads, Meta’s rival to X, launched in July 2023 and now tops 400 ...

While X is still the microblogging champion in web browsers, multiple reports are making Threads' ascent seem durable and convincing. Reading time 2 minutes Say what you will about the social media ...

Threads, Meta’s text-based social media platform, widened its lead over Elon Musk’s X in the first few weeks of 2026 after first surpassing the rival platform in daily active users on mobile devices ...

Threads is one of the two big platforms that materialized in 2023 as alternatives to X/Twitter when Elon Musk really started remaking it in his own image. Bluesky developed an unmistakable identity as ...

While an argument to re-integrate JavaFX floats in an OpenJDK discussion list, Oracle ponders providing better access to JavaFX from the JDK. Just as a proposal to return JavaFX to the Java ...

Meta has announced that Threads has reached the 150 million daily users milestone. This comes after it reported 400 million monthly users in August. Besides the milestone, the company has confirmed ...

Meta today announced that the Threads social network is gaining support for disappearing posts. "Ghost posts" are Threads posts that will be automatically archived after a 24-hour period. Replies to ...

Remember disappearing messages? Well, they are now coming to Threads, the X rival branched out of Instagram. Meta is calling them “ghost posts,” though the name is somewhat confusing, as they are not ...

If you use Threads, you’ve probably seen topic tags, which users can add to posts when they want to reach more people interested in that same subject. Today, Meta is combining topic tags with its ...

Meta’s Threads is on a roll. The social networking app is now home to more than 400 million monthly active users, Meta shared with Fast Company on Tuesday. That’s 50 million more than just a few ...

Threads, Meta’s X competitor that looked to capitalize on user discontent with billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition and rebranding of Twitter, is inching closer to potentially overtaking X in daily ...