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 ...

Twitter threads have become a powerful way to share detailed thoughts and information, but navigating these threads can be cumbersome. To make reading and managing Twitter threads easier, several ...

Meta Platforms launched Threads a year ago as Mark Zuckerberg’s bid to capitalize on the struggles of Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. Since then, the long-running feud ...

It’s been five years since “threadnought,” a giant Twitter thread in which lawyers battled trolls who were trying to silence critics of an anime voice actor accused of sexual misconduct. Now, with a ...

Although an app’s downloads aren’t an exact proxy for usage, they can hint at where the market is headed. And in the case of the alt-Twitter wars, the app winning the game right now is Instagram’s ...

Meta’s Twitter killer Threads has now had more daily active users in the US than Elon Musk’s X-formerly-Twitter since at least December, according to estimates by data intelligence platform Apptopia. ...

Threads may seem like the heir apparent to the short posting format, but it still has work to do. Threads may seem like the heir apparent to the short posting format, but it still has work to do. is a ...

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 ...

Recent efforts by Meta to grow Threads’ install base have been working. According to a new analysis of app store trends, Instagram Threads is now outpacing X, formerly Twitter, at least in terms of ...

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 ...