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Meta is testing a new way to create an account on Threads that will require a Facebook account to authenticate the login and base their profile on. This is not yet available to users as the option ...

Direct messages are coming to Threads after two years and many requests. Threads users tend to connect with a different crowd than on Instagram, Meta says. User behavior shifts and taking the public ...

Meta’s Threads is deepening its integration with the fediverse, a collection of decentralized social media platforms that includes Mastodon. Starting today, users who have enabled sharing to the ...

Instagram says it’s not testing ads in Threads and has no immediate plans to monetize after multiple developers and reverse engineers uncovered references to ad products in the app’s code, including ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a post that says they are launching a new test on Threads that will allow users to take advantage of the "dear algo" as a feature. The "dear algo" posts have been ...

Threads has added a green dot that shows when you're online. Meta, which owns Threads, says it's aimed at helping real-time conversations. It's also possible the green dot was simply an easy feature ...