Applications use data. It’s such a fundamental baseline that we don’t need to explain this core fact. But within this truism, there exists a seemingly infinite variety of shapes, sizes, types, forms ...

Recent data indicated Meta Platforms’ new text-based app Threads has experienced declines in two metrics used to measure engagement from the levels it posted shortly after rolling out. The number of ...

Threads -- Meta’s newly launched Twitter clone -- opened its doors with a ready-made user base after deciding to migrate people to Threads from Instagram. At launch, the platform is available on iOS ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A week ago, most people hadn’t even heard of Threads, Meta’s new ...

Threads, Meta's competitor for Twitter, has already registered millions of users — but the app collects more data than unwary internet surfers might realize. Threads allows third-party services or ...

Meta said on Monday that it plans to “temporarily” shutter Threads in Turkey from April 29, in response to an interim injunction imposed by the Turkish competition authority last month over the way ...

Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when alternatives, like Bluesky, Mastodon, and Spill, are vying for users who are ...

Threads privacy concerns are becoming a hot topic with many users worried about the social platform’s data collection policy. Many of these issues parallel concern with Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, ...

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 ...

A Wall Street Journal article on Friday warns that Instagram’s new Twitter competitor Threads is already losing steam. Citing third-party data from Sensor Tower, the paper reports the number of daily ...