Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts ...

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, 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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...