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Bluesky’s rampant growth has once again proven that competition is a good thing

Threads now rolling out Custom Feeds in its mobile app globally

In recent past, Bluesky has been growing substantially. It quickly ballooned to over 20 million users, and at a point, the service was adding over a million users a day. Between the ban on X in Brazil earlier this year, as well as the results of the 2024 US presidential election – a large group of people have been choosing to leave X.

But, they’re not leaving for Meta’s Threads, the more popular X alternative at the time – they’re going for Bluesky instead.

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Threads reaches 175 million active users; celebrates first anniversary with custom icons

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It’s been almost a year since Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, became available to the public. Over the last 12 months, Threads has achieved some major milestones, such as hitting 100 million registered users in its first five days. A year later, Threads now has 175 million monthly active users, and the app is getting custom icons as part of its first anniversary celebrations.

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Get ready for a wave of Threads app integrations for iPhone, iPad, and Mac following API launch

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Threads launched last summer as Instagram’s take on a Twitter-style app. But in classic Instagram fashion, Threads is currently iPhone-only and doesn’t offer native iPad or Mac clients. The web version works well as a progressive web app, but chances of a native multi-platform option have been bleak.

Until today, when Threads launched its third-party developer API and made it possible for third-party apps to publish content to the service.

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There’s no Threads app for iPad, but this simple trick will unlock an app-like experience today

Threads on iPad

Instagram as a company seems to have never heard of this little niche product called the iPad. There may never be an Instagram iPad app, which doesn’t bode well for Threads’ own chances of native iPad support either.

But did you know that you can get an app-like Threads experience on the iPad right now? Here’s how to unlock the best iPad experience for Threads.

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Unfollow Everything lawsuit could change the way we use social media apps

Unfollow Everything | Back of a man looking out to sea

A court is being asked to decide whether or not Meta has a legal obligation to allow the use of Unfollow Everything – a browser tool which effectively empties your Facebook feed.

The idea behind the tool is that instead of being sucked into an effectively endless feed of posts from every friend, group, and page you have ever followed, you get to proactively choose the posts you read …

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Threads is finally rolling out real-time search results for some users

Threads search results

Threads, Meta’s microblogging platform, has come a long way since its launch almost a year ago. However, Threads still lacks some important features – such as an option to show real-time search results. After Meta said it had no plans to make this a reality, the company is finally letting some Threads users see recent search results.

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