Joining a new social network in 2024 is an odd, lonely, quiet experience. By now, most social networkers have established communities online. But if those communities were on Twitter (now known as X), ...

When we last saw Jenny Staff Johnson, a Houston-based writer and frequent social media user, she was in search of an alternative to the chaotic cesspool that Elon Musk’s X, the former Twitter, had ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...

(Bloomberg) -- Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads will launch podcast previews, or the ability to upload snippets of shows that ...

The story so far: In July 2023, the Instagram-based app Threads exploded with a burst of enthusiasm from users desperate to flee Elon Musk's X, the app formerly known as Twitter. That faded in the ...

Threads, the Twitter-like app created by Meta, has seen a sharp drop in activity. The Threads daily active user count peaked on July 7, two days after its launch. Recent data shows that metric has ...

Meta wants Threads to be the place where podcast fans and creators meet. With native episode previews and growing creator ...

There are a number of stories about how despite an initial Instagram-based surge of Threads sign-ups, user retention has fallen sharply. The Wall Street Journal reports daily active users on Threads ...

One Saturday night a few years ago, Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin tweeted a picture of the book he had been reading that day. The idea was simply to recommend it, but a few of his followers replied with their ...

A Wall Street Journal article on Friday warns that Instagram’s new Twitter competitor Threads is already losing steam. Citing third-party data from Sensor Tower, the paper reports the number of daily ...