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Threads users are asking for new feature updates and it seems Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking their opinions into account. The app’s update will include a “Following” feed and “Translations” which will register the original language and translate it to the language settings of the user reading it, Meta announced on Tuesday.Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerThe announcement was in response to a user’s request to add the “Following” feed, to which Zuckerberg responded: “Ask and you shall…

Image: TikTokTikTok is bringing text posts to its Camera page in a format that’s much like Instagram’s stories. Users can choose from a photo option, video, or text. The company announced the updated feature in a news release on Monday.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetThe text post was created as a way for creators to share their stories, poems, lyrics, or other written content on TikTok, and may help to fill the void created when Twitter began to deteriorate and Threads didn’t live up to its expectations. For years,…

Photo: Samuel Corum (AP)Republican lawmakers have yelped about banning TikTok nationally over supposed national security threats for years now but the increasingly prescient policy issue finally gained bipartisan political support this year with the introduction of the RESTRICT Act by Sens. Mark Warner, a Democrat, and John Thune. The proposed legislation would give the Secretary of Commerce the ability to ban digital products or services from China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela that involved…

Threads is getting some new feature updates, inching it a little closer to the Twitter clone that was promised. The updated features will include a followers list, the option to subscribe to unfollowed users, and a revised “follows” tab, Threads developer Cameron Roth, said in a Threads post. Unfortunately, the most important tab is still missing. Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsUsers will see the updates on their profiles throughout Wednesday but may need to restart the app to see them come through immediately. Otherwise,…

Just how much copyright protection should an artist or photographer expect after they post their work on social media? It’s a murky legal question by itself that’s now made even murkier as an appeals court digs directly into the nature of HTML to say that—no—that embedded photo isn’t a copy of the original photo, but a link to where it’s stored.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsOn Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Federal Appeals Court in northern California laid out the case that sharing embedded images and enabling the sharing of…

Both Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram lead Adam Mosseri have been adamant they were not simply copying Twitter wholesale. And yet, that’s exactly what they seem to be doing as the company’s latest move has been to limit the number of posts users can see on the Instagram-based app, just as Elon Musk’s Twitter did a few weeks ago.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetMosseri claimed in a Threads post late on Monday that “Spam attacks have picked up,” requiring new rate limit changes. While the Instagram boss didn’t…

For a brand-new app, Threads launched in a highly functional form. Many of the things we’re complaining about took a long time to come to Twitter, and perhaps it’s unfair to judge something just a few weeks old with a mature (if deteriorating) app that first launched in 2006.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetStill, the initial version of Threads is missing several features that we would find extremely useful, and as it evolves, there’s no doubt many of these will be coming in the near future.Threads Needs These Five…

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has issued an additional subpoena directing Meta to hand over documents surrounding content moderation on its newest app, Threads. The request was sent amid the ongoing investigation into policies on tech platforms including Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft.Russian Court Says Meta Is "Extremist Organization"House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, indicating the company will need to comply with its previous…

Image: rafapress (Shutterstock)Shortly after Meta’s new Twitter clone Threads hits 100 million users, analysts say that the app’s user engagement has precipitously dropped off.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsNBC News reports that data from Sensor Tower and Similarweb indicates that the newly released social media platform from Meta has seen a drop off in attention from users. Sensor Tower Data suggests that on Tuesday and Wednesday, daily active users dropped 20% from Saturday while time spent on the platform fell 50% from…

On Thursday, Twitter said it had expanded its creator monetization fund to share more ad revenue with “creators.” Who is a Twitter creator these days? Well, some of the most politically divisive figures are making the most change in Musk’s new world order.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetThrough Musk’s mouthpiece account, the company claimed it would pay out $5 million in total to the lingering mob of tweeters still regularly posting on the platform. The ad-revenue sharing was first announced back in February and was…