Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
Programming note: With this post, we now go on a short summer break. See you back here July 15. — A year ago this week, Meta introduced Threads to the world. Threads: @mosseri , @drewharwell , @kur...
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
what you need to know Tyler Lee / Phandroid : Twitter should be worried as Threads racks up 30 million sign ups in less than 24 hours Livemint : Elon Musk hits out at Zuckerberg as Threads seems ‘Thre...
Spotify plans to drop its paywall on some of Gimlet's podcasts and change its exclusivity rules in the coming months; Spotify acquired Gimlet for $230M in 2019
Staff at the podcast studio Gimlet staff have been told in recent weeks that Spotify plans to drop its subscription wall around some of the studio's shows. Tweets: @semaforben See also Mediagazer Twee...
Sources: in a meeting, Twitter's top lawyer Vijaya Gadde reassured staff and cried as she expressed concerns about how the company could change under Elon Musk
Monday was an emotional day at Twitter — even for its executives. — Shortly after billionaire Elon Musk bought … Tweets: @brentscher , @aniceburrito , @jpmaheu , @anandwrites , @birnbaum_e , @hawley...