Social media conversations can be vastly more enjoyable when you pick and choose who you're talking with. Today, Threads is adding more controls that let users determine who can reply to their posts.

Meta’s Threads app is leaning into impermanence. Starting Monday, the platform is rolling out “ghost posts,” a new post format for sharing fleeting thoughts that automatically disappear after 24 hours ...

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 ...

Anything goes on Threads — including unfettered misinformation and hate speech. Both are rampant on Meta Platforms Inc.’s META new Twitter-like app, which debuted last week and has been downloaded by ...

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 ...

Two years in, Threads is starting to look more and more like the most viable challenger to X. It passed 350 million monthly users earlier this year and Mark Zuckerberg has predicted it could be Meta's ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s “Twitter killer” app is poised for the kill. Threads — which launched in 2023 as Zuckerberg sought to directly compete with his longtime rival Elon Musk — moved within striking ...

"Threads was created for sharing perspectives that generate vibrant, public conversations, but sometimes you want to take a conversation further, one-on-one," said Meta's team. "Messaging has been one ...

For now, you can only send DMs to your followers on Threads or mutual followers on Instagram. For now, you can only send DMs to your followers on Threads or mutual followers on Instagram. is a news ...

If a user publishes a post with a link to a website or article on Elon Musk's X, very often they'll find that the post receives minimal views, retweets, and likes. Musk has previously confirmed that ...

Meta is changing the Threads experience on the web for users to enjoy, and this starts with the arrival of its new domain, Threads.com. Previously, users on the web had to access the text-based ...