This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. Threads is looking to help more people ...

When Meta launched Threads, its competitor to platforms like X (formerly Twitter), your Threads profile was treated as though it were part of your Instagram account. And people quickly found out that ...

Meta’s new Threads app is closely linked to Instagram, so much so that you can’t delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account. This is mentioned clearly in Meta’s supplemental ...

But Instagram is looking into changing that. But Instagram is looking into changing that. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years ...

This story was originally published on Social Media Today. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Social Media Today newsletter. Threads’ first update of 2025 could be one of ...

Meta on Wednesday took a small step toward supporting the fediverse by adding the ability to verify your Threads profile on Mastodon. The company announced that it is adding support for “rel=me” links ...

A new update from Meta’s X competitor Instagram Threads allows users to connect more with the fediverse, which is also called the open social web and includes services like Flipboard, Mastodon, ...

Threads users can now finally delete their profiles and still retain their Instagram accounts. In a Monday post on Threads, Instagram head Adam Mosseri revealed the new option, a highly requested ...

There are other factors worth keeping an eye on. For now, people who join Threads are required to have an Instagram account as well and would need to make changes on the latter platform — like ...