A look at Threads and an interview with Head of Threads Connor Hayes, as the platform passes 500M MAUs and increasingly resembles Reddit with a community focus
Meta's office in San Francisco. Threads aims to reach one billion users.Ian C. Bates for The New York Times
Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's “maintaining”
Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be “the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world.”
Meta adds new Threads features for podcasters, as it tries to make the social network the de facto place for people to talk about shows and engage with creators
and hear about it! We're testing podcast previews to make it easy for fans of your threads to find your show 🎧 Connor Hayes / @conno_r : Threads 🤝Podcasts — To drive even more conversations on Thre...
Meta rolls out a tool that lets users attach up to 10,000 characters of text to Threads posts, giving users a way to build upon posts' 500-character text limit
Meta's Threads app is adding a way for users to post up to 10,000 characters … Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada : Threads Users Can Now Add Up to 10,000 Characters to Posts Tim Marcin / Mashable : Thr...
After backlash, Meta says newly viral AI profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting the profiles
Earlier this week, Meta executive Connor Hayes told the Financial Times that the company is going to roll out AI character profiles …
Meta says its Llama models were downloaded almost 350M times, are used by AT&T and others, and usage via cloud providers more than doubled from May to July 2024
we just published a bunch of updates on the adoption we're seeing. And yes, we have a lot more work to do on dev tools and resources which we're bringing online as quickly as we can. https://ai.meta....