In the last few months, Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found an audience willing to try out a new text-based social network. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms people are trying out. Now, Meta has stepped into the game with a big launch tied to Instagram. […]
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Social networking startup Bluesky is benefitting from a surge of new users from the U.K., following Elon Musk’s controversial statements over the U.K. riots in recent weeks. Although the X exodus wasn’t yet visible in the app install or usage data for X’s biggest rival, Instagram Threads, Bluesky has been touting an increase in signups
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Meta’s X rival Threads announced a number of new features today, including the ability to store multiple drafts, a way to rearrange columns on the desktop and insights into the user’s audience. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also mentioned that the company plans to add a post-scheduling feature soon. The company noted that these new features
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Old tweets from stars, celebrities, politicians and other public figures often come back to haunt them, exposing their embarrassing, unevolved opinions from their youth, offensive comments, abusive messages, errors in judgment, and worse. While users on X (formerly Twitter) only have third-party options to wipe out their X history, a feature Meta is developing for
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Instagram Threads users are gaining a new audience. On Tuesday, the social magazine app Flipboard took another step toward integrating with ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers services like Mastodon, PixelFed, PeerTube and others. Starting Tuesday, Flipboard users can follow any federated accounts, meaning those that participate in the social network of interconnected
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Over on Threads, the talk of an X “exodus” is blowing up. Anecdotally, at least, people report seeing an influx of new users and other online friends leaving Elon Musk’s X to join Meta’s Threads, with some even deactivating their X account in the process. But while users’ timelines filled with this chatter and various
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A day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about his newest social media experiment Threads reaching “almost” 200 million users on the company’s Q2 2024 earnings call, the platform has touched the milestone. Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed that the Twitter rival has reached 200M active users in a post on Threads. Meta has taken
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Threads has made it easier for people to explore trending topics on the platform. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Tuesday that users in the U.S. can now see a label that highlights related trending topics above posts. You can tap on that label to see more posts related to that topic, and the new window
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Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads: Since Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of X, the app formerly known as Twitter, usage of X alternatives has continued to grow as people embrace decentralized social networking. Unfortunately, keeping up with all the new networks has not been easy, as they currently rely on different protocols that don’t interoperate. That’s a
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Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Figma CEO Dylan Field said the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature after it was accused of “heavily” training the tool on existing apps. The
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