Threads has passed 500 million monthly active users as Meta expands Communities and rolls out Your Algo feed controls in the ...

Threads hit 500M users by tapping Instagram’s built-in audience, showing Meta’s true asset is its distribution pipeline, not apps.

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 ...

Almost three years in, Meta's X competitor is still growing.

Meta’s latest Threads experiment breaks one of social media’s most fundamental rules: your right to block unwanted accounts. The company introduced an AI chatbot that users cannot block, abandoning ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Threads, Meta's X-like social network, rolled out a feature that lets users tell the app's algorithm ...

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 ...