Adam Mosseri says Meta is adding political content recommendations to Instagram and Threads; Threads' political content control setting will have three options
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Threads is testing collections of profiles to follow, curated by a “handful of Threads community leaders”, built around topics like fashion, food, and books
It's unclear if one day, Threads will allow any account to create starter packs — 1/2 — www.threads.net/@mosseri/pos... … Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : Hahahahahaha wait, you can...
Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky
For You, following, or a custom one — as your default. Also making this more visible in the app. Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. ...
Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024
- Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.
Threads begins testing an option to set For You, Following, or a custom feed as the default, another improvement seemingly sparked by competition from Bluesky
For You, following, or a custom one — as your default. Also making this more visible in the app. Interested to see how and if people use this. Jason Kottke / @jkottke : FINALLY. ...
Meta says Threads had 35M new signups since November 1 and is now going on three months of 1M+ million signups per day; Threads had 275M+ MAUs in Q3 2024
- Bluesky said last week it now has more than 20 million users. … - According to the new data, another 20 million new signups have been added in the past 11 days.
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements
Good luck to everyone who stays on Threads 😂 [embedded post] @jphillll.bsky.social : Threads doing more new shit, but it's like AI summaries of trending topics lol [image] Corey Qu...
Threads is testing AI-generated summaries of what users are discussing, in the app's Trending Now section in the US, and Search and Trending Now improvements
Meta is promising “long-overdue improvements” to its X competitor, Threads, including more precise search features and expanded trending topics.
Adam Mosseri says Threads is rebalancing ranking to prioritize content from people that users follow, warns that creators' “unconnected” reach may go down
As Bluesky's user numbers continue to rise, Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says Threads will change its For You page to show fewer posts from accounts you don't follow.
Meta rolls out “activity status” to Threads that shows a green dot next to a user's profile picture to show the user is online, if they have the feature enabled
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Chris Messina / @chris : What's up AIM buddies? — RE: https://www.threads.net/... X: @gateklons : And the GDPR legal basis for this disclosure is?...
Some Threads and Instagram users say their accounts are being deleted or restricted due to moderation failures; Adam Mosseri says he's “looking into it”
On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted …
Meta not disclosing which select creators it pays to post on Threads undermines trust in everyone's motivations, as users assume others are “engagement farming”
It was a useful program, and the archival has merit, but publishers argued that the Archive overstepped, and the courts eventually agreed. Threads: @katienotopoulos , @cotyrosenbla...
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has over 185M weekly active users and over 400M MAUs and it's “growing quickly” even without a rollout “in UK, Brazil, or EU yet”
usage of Meta AI across all of our surfaces is growing FAST! 🚀 Bluesky: @ndnickerson.bsky.social : okay this is just a hunch but after listening to @zitron.bsky.social 's podcast ...
Internal messages: Meta staff complained about Threads' algorithm limiting political posts, after the For You page was slow to show news of Biden dropping out
it's still the number 1 conversation Drew Harwell / @drewharwell : Policy going as well as expected https://www.theinformation.com/ ... See also Mediagazer
Microsoft hikes the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by $3 to $19.99/month for new subscribers and plans a Standard tier for $14.99/month without day-one titles
is Amazon Prime next? Jez Corden / Windows Central : Xbox Game Pass is getting MAJOR changes, with a new tier without day one games, and a range of price increases Jennifer Maas / ...
Microsoft hikes the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate by $3 to $19.99/month for new subscribers and plans a Standard tier for $14.99/month without day-one titles
Microsoft is planning to hike its Xbox Game Pass Ultimate pricing again in September, alongside launching a new “standard” …
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says that there will not be “just one AI”, disparages closed-source AI competitors as thinking they're “creating God”, and more
Why Mark Zuckerberg thinks closed source AI competitors are harming the industry Hamsat Abdurasheed / News.ng : Zuckerberg announces plans to begin surfacing creators' AI character...
Meta starts testing user-created AI chatbots on Instagram in the US; Mark Zuckerberg says the chatbots, made using Meta AI studio, will be clearly labeled as AI
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube
users are not happy about it Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Unskippable ‘Ad Breaks’ Annoy Instagram Users Abhiman Biswas / MySmartPrice : Instagram Might Soon Show Unskippable Ads to Users ...
Meta begins rolling out TweetDeck-style customizable feeds on Threads globally, following a test that started earlier this month
as well as your saved posts, activity feed and more. Everything you need to know ⬇️ Keith Edwards / @keithedwards : Share ideas* Some restrictions may apply See also Mediagazer