Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is on the stand today in Meta’s antitrust trial. In trying to prove the social network is not a monopoly, he shared that the Threads app could have been just a feature ...

Connor Hayes has been chosen to helm Meta Platforms' (NASDAQ:META) text-based social media app Threads, Axios reported on Thursday. Hayes, a longtime company employee, will take over from Instagram ...

Meta was initially developing Threads as just a feature for the Instagram app, reveals Adam Mosseri. He said that text posts inside Instagram could be confusing to users. So the Meta team behind the ...

Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk averted a cage fight last month but the companies they oversee -- Meta and Twitter, respectively -- are set to square off in direct competition. Meta, the parent company ...

Threads is rolling out a test for direct messages in the app. Previously, users had to switch between Threads and Instagram for direct messaging. DMs will only be available in Hong Kong, Thailand, and ...

Threads was a kind of extension of Instagram when it launched in 2023. However, over time, the reliance of Meta’s X rival platform on Instagram has waned. Now, Threads is getting its own DM inbox, ...

Instagram Threads will begin testing video ads, Meta announced on Thursday. The test, which will make Threads look more like its competitor X, is an expansion of Threads’ advertising initiatives, ...

Meta's Threads app is getting some new Instagram-like features. According to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, Threads is adding a dedicated media tab which highlights users' posts with photos and video, ...

Will Instagram Threads truly integrate with the fediverse, also known as the open social web, to allow its users to interact with people on other services like Mastodon and to move their account ...

A user opens the Threads app as Meta pushes new features like direct messaging to compete with X and Bluesky. Julio Lopez/Unsplash Threads' debut of its direct messaging feature on Tuesday now allows ...