Threads, the Twitter-like app from Meta, has been growing quietly but surely. By one measure it’s more popular than Elon Musk’s X.
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150 million monthly active users
Meta’s Twitter/X rival Threads is growing at a stable pace. The social network now has more than 150 million monthly active users — up from 130 million in […]
Depop sellers faced ongoing payment delays due to tech issue, company admits
Sellers on the Etsy-owned clothing resale app Depop have been facing delayed payments. Over the last few months, more and more sellers have reported that their payment dates […]
Quora raised $75M from a16z to grow Poe, its AI chat bot platform
Quora is back at it, raising funding for the first time in nearly seven years. The questions and answers website nabbed $75 million from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), which […]
As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users
News aggregator app SmartNews had a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a leadership change that saw co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto assume the role […]
Temu was the most-downloaded iPhone app in the U.S. in 2023
Temu, the Chinese e-commerce company whose app is now attracting longer engagement times than Amazon, is Apple’s most downloaded free app in the U.S. for 2023. The Cupertino-based […]
BeReal adds private groups and Live Photo-like features; Pew estimates 13% of US teens use app
The up-and-coming social app BeReal continues to vie for users’ attention with more and more bells and whistles. Next week, BeReal is rolling out two major new features: […]
X’s AI chatbot Grok now ‘rolled out to all’ U.S. Premium+ subscribers, English language users are next
Yesterday, X began rolling out Grok, the “rebellious” AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI startup, to Premium+ subscribers on X’s platform. Today, Musk says that Grok’s rollout […]
Threads is rolling out its hashtags without the hash symbol globally
Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be able to […]