Threads first surpassed X in terms of daily active users on mobile devices worldwide in September, according to Similarweb.

Meta’s Threads has surpassed X in total active users as of January 2026, marking a major shift in the competitive landscape ...

Meta’s text-based social media platform Threads has outpaced its main competitor, X, which was previously known as Twitter.

Threads, the text-based social network that Meta recently launched as part of Instagram, is finally on the web. Earlier this week, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg shared that Threads for the web ...

Threads, the Twitter-like app created by Meta, has seen a sharp drop in activity. The Threads daily active user count peaked on July 7, two days after its launch. Recent data shows that metric has ...

Reddit, while not new, often becomes the go-to hub during X outages. Subreddits like r/worldnews, r/technology, and r/India ...

Meta’s Threads app is leaning into impermanence. Starting Monday, the platform is rolling out “ghost posts,” a new post format for sharing fleeting thoughts that automatically disappear after 24 hours ...

Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.

Now that Threads has grown to more than 400 million users, Meta is adding more features that could help the platform establish an identity. The company is testing a new "communities" feature that ...

More than 100 million users have joined Meta’s new Threads platform, a feat the Twitter rival has achieved in less than five days, making the Twitter competitor the fastest-growing online platform in ...

Fediverse sharing is now available for Threads users in more than 100 countries. Here's how to take advantage of the new setting. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, ...