As Threads continues to steadily gain momentum, it’s also looking to add more features to fuel more engagement, and essentially reach parity with X, and other social apps. In order to do that, it needs to add DMs, which it seems to be working on, and hashtags, another highly requested feature, which Instagram chief Adam […]
Well, this is something. In today’s Q3 earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a quick note about the growth of Threads thus far, and what he sees as the potential for the Twitter-like app. Here’s Zuckerberg’s full summary: “I want to give a quick update on Threads. We’re three months in now, and I’m […]
Meta’s Threads app has struggled to gain market share from its larger rival, X, despite a promising launch that quickly garnered 100 million signups. But, how the platforms combat misinformation about the conflict between Israel and Hamas could become a tipping point in boosting Threads’s traction. Twitter has a chance to benefit Threads Getty Images […]
While Meta’s Threads app raced to 100 million members in less than a week after its initial launch, setting a new growth record, it’s dropped off significantly ever since, with the app now sitting on 128 million users 8 weeks out from its full release. That means that’s its only added another 28 million members […]
Instagram Threads rocked the internet when it debuted in early July 2023; the Meta-owned alternative to Twitter (recently renamed X) racked up more than 100 million users within hours of its launch. Instagram Threads is a text-based conversation app. You can create posts with up to 500 characters, and add links, photos and videos, too. […]
X/Twitter may have just reached a new user high, with owner Elon Musk sharing this chart of the app’s monthly users. Yeah, there’s not a lot of detail to go on, as Musk has intentionally left off the X axis (ironic). But according to Elon at least, X is thriving, despite rising competition, and reports […]
Twitter Starts Paying Creators Tens Of Thousands — Amid Intensifying Competition With Threads top line Twitter has finally paid out for the revenue-sharing program it had long planned for large audience creators. One creator received a payment of $20,000 more than $37,000Elon Musk’s Threads is now a rival platform to Mark Zuckerberg. Twitter’s ad revenue-sharing […]
As expected, Meta’s new Threads app has now become the fastest-growing app of all time. The much anticipated Twitter alternative, launched a day earlier than expected on Wednesday last week, quickly rushed to 30 million signups within 24 hours of release. It then rose to 50 million just hours later, then 70 million within less […]
SAN ANSELMO CALIFORNIA – JULY 05. In this illustration photo, the Threads Logo is shown on a … [+]Cell phone in San Anselmo on the 5th of July 2023. Meta, which owns Instagram, will release Threads July 6 as a possible rival to Twitter – the young social media app created by Tesla CEO Elon […]
Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Meta’s ‘Copycat’ Threads App, Report Says [unable to retrieve full-text content] Semafor, Thursday, reported that Twitter’s attorney Meta accused, in a lawsuit, of misusing “trade secret and intellectual property of Twitter” to build its Threads rival app. The company claimed to have attracted millions to sign up for Threads.