Twitter is considered the granddaddy of microblogging. But if you're looking for an alternative after recent changes at X, Instagram Threads might be a good alternative. While it might seem like a ...

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...

For a long time, if you were looking for a "real time" social media app to use to keep up with news stories and major pop culture events as they happen, there was only one choice: X, the platform ...

Since deciding to stop using X (it’s no longer the Twitter I knew and loved for a long time), I’ve been testing out various alternatives. And for me, there are two clear front-runners: Bluesky and ...

Meta says Threads account deletion is coming this year. Soon after Meta’s Instagram-based Twitter competitor launched, some of the millions of people who activated Threads noticed a small issue. Once ...

A year after it launched, Meta’s newest social network has the makings of a viable rival to Elon Musk’s X. With 175 million active users and partnerships with A-list celebrities like Taylor Swift, ...

When we last saw Jenny Staff Johnson, a Houston-based writer and frequent social media user, she was in search of an alternative to the chaotic cesspool that Elon Musk’s X, the former Twitter, had ...

Several social networks have popped up over the past couple of years, many of them aiming for a Twitter-like (now X-like) experience without the baggage that Elon Musk brings to the platform. Meta, ...

Threads users who want a direct messaging feature might be getting one they didn't exactly ask for. Meta is testing a sort of DM feature in which users can send messages, but only to Instagram users.

The fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — got another boost of legitimacy Tuesday as the @Potus (President of the United States) ...

Instagram Threads launched, and my Mastodon server went offline. When I went to look at why Mastodon users shouldn’t worry about Meta building on the ActivityPub protocol, I couldn’t — my Mastodon.xyz ...