Threads

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    digitpatrox1 hour ago
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    Threads Is Trying to Make Itself More Like Bluesky

    Bluesky is certainly having a moment. The platform now has over 21 million users, and those users are active: posting, sharing, following new accounts, and creating starter packs for other users to join, too. Meta is, no doubt, seeing this success, and wants a piece of it for its similar platform, Threads. While Threads has way more users at the…

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    digitpatrox1 week ago
    20

    Threads is testing custom feeds for your favorite topics

    Threads is testing a way to create custom feeds for certain profiles or topics, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Friday. The upcoming feature should make it easier to keep tabs on different interests, such as your favorite sports team or even technology-related news. It sounds similar to the custom feeds feature Bluesky rolled out last year — but Threads’…

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    digitpatrox3 weeks ago
    25

    Croissant Is an iPhone App That Posts to Mastodon, Threads, and Bluesky at Once

    Social media has been weird—well, weirder—ever since the death of Twitter. Those of us who have moved on from X have been forced to search out our friends on on some combination of Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads, and while there’s some hope that all these services will eventually be joined together in the Fediverse, right now they’re only kind of…

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    digitpatroxOctober 22, 2024
    43

    Celebrity jet-tracking accounts disappear from Threads and Instagram

    Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link…

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    digitpatroxOctober 9, 2024
    52

    Threads is working on a community groups feature

    Threads is working on a new community feature that will seemingly allow users to group together around particular topics and interests, TechCrunch reports. Developer Chris Messina spotted references to “Loops” in the code for Threads’ latest app update, which vaguely describes something similar to the “Communities” feature on X or even subreddits. The code mentions things like the ability to…

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    digitpatroxSeptember 28, 2024
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    Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook

    Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter containing a JD Vance dossier that was allegedly nabbed in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed posts containing the link and is seemingly blocking links to PDFs of the dossier being hosted elsewhere. Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold emailed Meta’s…

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    digitpatroxSeptember 16, 2024
    55

    You might start seeing Instagram comments on Threads soon

    Instagram might roll out a way to share comments on other Instagram posts to Threads, according to Alessandro Paluzzi, who often reverse engineers Meta’s social media apps to find coming features. Paluzzi shared an image showing that when commenting on an Instagram post, there could be a new dropdown menu that lets users choose to share the comment only to…

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    digitpatroxSeptember 13, 2024
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    Opening your Threads account up to the fediverse is as easy as a click

    It looks like the fediverse is continuing to open up. In late March, Meta’s Threads introduced a beta feature that allows users from the US, Canada, or Japan to cross-post and view likes from Mastodon and, presumably, other federated social networks. In June, it added that ability to over 100 countries. If you want to do it the long way…

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