- Meta’s new micro-blogging Threads app signs up 100m users in less than a week
- But why is Instagram taking on Twitter with Threads?
- Instagram will now let you add up to three collaborators on posts and reels, allowing single posts to be engaged with by a wider audience pool
- Twitter is testing voice and video calls in DMs to provide more chat utility in the app
- Microsoft is introducing AI-generated headlines and descriptions for responsive search ads
- Meta’s ‘friendly’ Threads collides with unfriendly internet in Reuters analysis piece
- Sales of smart speakers have “fallen off a cliff” as customers cut back and trade down on electrical items, the boss of Currys has said
- Machynlleth town clock only chimes on Twitter in fundraising stunt
- TikTok opens its first ever pop up shop on Oxford Street to showcase the power of TikTok Shop ‘IRL’
- Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis talks about Google’s big AI shuffle and how it plans to stay competitive
- Rising interest rates and global economic woes might herald the end of the open internet