Threads tests letting you hide your public posts, as monthly users jump to over 150 million

Launched in July 2023, Threads quickly broke the record as the most downloaded app ever, snagging more than 100 million users in less than a week. After a peak of 49.3 million daily active users on ... Read More

Threads Now Lets You Filter Out Offensive Content, Here’s How to Enable It

Instagram Threads now lets you hide certain words and phrases in the app. Here's how you can use the Hidden Words feature. Read More

The Social Network Formerly Known as Twitter Planning to Charge New Users a ‘Small Fee’ to Post, Like and Reply

Social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) will soon begin charging new users "a small fee" if they want to post content and like, reply, or bookmark tweets. Read More

Asked about 'Social Network' sequel, Aaron Sorkin teases new movie blaming Facebook for Jan. 6

Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin said he’s working on a film that will center on Facebook and social media’s role in the Jan. 6 riot. Read More

It’s not Gen Z who need to be protected from social media – it’s boomers

Sent to a huge number of users on WhatsApp, it was a simple yet brilliant trick – spam a load of people purporting to be their children, and a proportion of those targeted will be in the right ... Read More

Why is Reddit down? Social networking site suffers outage, displays 502 bad gateway error

The social media site Reddit was offline for about an hour Thursday afternoon but has since returned. Downdetector, which tracks website outages based on user submissions, showed 66,732 Reddit outage ... Read More