The Latest Breaking News from Threads

Meta's 'Threads' reaches 100 million users, and now you can follow us there too

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has today announced that the new Threads social network has surpassed 100 million users in less than a week after the Twitter rival first launched.

Windows Central · Jul 10, 2023

As Meta launches its Threads microblogging site, Twitter is being kicked while it's down

Elon Musk is no stranger to highly competitive markets in which you take advantage of a competitor’s weakness. For once, he is on the receiving end as Meta launches its microblogging platform Threads to take advantage of his difficulties at Twitter.

The Conversation · Jul 10, 2023

How many users does Threads have? How it compares to Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook

It looks like Threads is here to stay following the number of sign-ups

Evening Standard · Jul 10, 2023

Elon Musk goes low against Zuckerberg as Twitter-Threads spat intensifies

Twitter owner calls Facebook founder a ‘cuck’ as rancour grows over launch of Threads, a competitor to Musk’s network

The Guardian - US · Jul 10, 2023

Threads: will privacy fears scupper Meta’s Twitter ‘killer’?

Meta has launched Threads, a text-based app to rival Twitter, in a “bold attempt to lure users away from its floundering competitor”, said Kari Paul in The Guardian.

The Week · Jul 10, 2023

Elon Musk remains defiant as Zuckerberg's Threads races to record signups

“You will get more laughs from this app than everything else combined,” Musk tweeted.

Fortune · Jul 10, 2023

Twitter traffic sinks in wake of changes and launch of rival platform Threads

Data shows the micro-blogging website has been shedding users since early 2023, not long after Elon Musk’s takeover

The Guardian - AU · Jul 10, 2023

Twitter rival Threads signs up 100 million users in 5 days

PARIS: The Threads app launched by Instagram as a rival to Twitter has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days, data tracking websites said on Monday, smashing the record of AI tool ChatGPT for fastest-growing consumer app.

Bangkok Post · Jul 10, 2023

Threads could do what Instagram couldn't – and cut through toxic fitness culture

Instagram is full of toxic fitness content, but Threads could be a better place. Here’s how.

TechRadar · Jul 10, 2023

Afternoon Update: calls for Morrison to resign; six additions to threatened species list; and rightwing figures join Threads

Some Coalition members have said the former PM should resign from politics in wake of a scathing royal commission report

The Guardian - AU · Jul 10, 2023