X announced a $1 million bounty for the top long-form article by U.S.-based creators as competition with Threads heats up.

Meta’s Threads started 2026 ahead of Elon Musk’s X in worldwide mobile usage, according to market intelligence firm ...

Threads might be turning DMs into mini playgrounds. Meta is quietly testing an in-chat basketball game that lets users shoot ...

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 ...

Threads, the text-based social network that Meta recently launched as part of Instagram, is finally on the web. Earlier this week, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg shared that Threads for the web ...

Meta’s Threads has surpassed X in total active users as of January 2026, marking a major shift in the competitive landscape ...

Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.

Now that Threads has grown to more than 400 million users, Meta is adding more features that could help the platform establish an identity. The company is testing a new "communities" feature that ...

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 ...

Reddit, while not new, often becomes the go-to hub during X outages. Subreddits like r/worldnews, r/technology, and r/India ...

Fediverse sharing is now available for Threads users in more than 100 countries. Here's how to take advantage of the new setting. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, ...