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Meta’s Threads is pulling further ahead of Elon Musk’s X on mobile, based on recent estimates from analytics firm Similarweb, Forbes reports. In the first stretch of January, Threads averaged roughly ...

While X is still the microblogging champion in web browsers, multiple reports are making Threads' ascent seem durable and convincing. Reading time 2 minutes Say what you will about the social media ...

Threads is exploring games in chats, beginning with a basketball game. A spokesperson for Meta confirmed to TechCrunch that the company is internally prototyping the game and that it’s not available ...

UPDATE: Oct. 30, 2025, 5:32 p.m. Meta confirmed to Mashable that Threads ghost posts appeared in web searches after the 24-hour expiration period and that the issue had been fixed as of Oct. 30. "We ...

With last year’s news about “The Martian” screenwriter Drew Goddard taking the helm from Lana and Lily Wachowski for a new “Matrix” film, Laurence Fishburne expressed his hesitancy in reprising his ...

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 ...

Meta’s Threads is on a roll. The social networking app is now home to more than 400 million monthly active users, Meta shared with Fast Company on Tuesday. That’s 50 million more than just a few ...

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Today, Threads announced a new batch of analytics upgrades as part of its push to let creators better understand how their posts are doing on and off the platform. Here’s what’s new. Up until now, ...

Threads, Meta’s X competitor that looked to capitalize on user discontent with billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition and rebranding of Twitter, is inching closer to potentially overtaking X in daily ...

Free-threaded Python is now officially supported, though using it remains optional. Here are four tips for developers getting started with true parallelism in Python. Until recently, Python threads ...