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    digitpatroxOctober 22, 2024
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    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
    141

    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
    149

    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
    140

    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
    160

    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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