On Elon Musk’s X, Bookmarks are a popular way for users to keep track of posts they want to refer back to at a later time. However, the Bookmarks feature requires users to actively pick what posts they want to bookmark when they come across it. Then, those posts are saved to the Bookmarks tab.…
Meta is bringing its AI chatbot to Threads in a way that should feel familiar to anyone who has spent time on X. According to Engadget, the company is testing a new feature that gives Meta AI a dedicated Threads account — @meta.ai — that users can tag in posts and replies to add additional…
Instagram has a new feature that lets you share an unedited photo dump with your pals that disappears once viewed. Yes, we have questions. The Meta-owned social media platform announced Instants on Wednesday, a tool that lets you send a batch of snaps to Close Friends or mutual followers. You can’t edit the photos, which…
Vine is back. Sort of. Which is a strange sentence to say in 2026. Almost a decade after the popular short-form video app had its doors shuttered by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, it has been relaunched as Divine, funded by the very same man who killed it. Divine serves as both a new host…
It seems like every week another app or digital platform shuts down unexpectedly, and this time social media app Threads may be experiencing an outage. On the morning of May 5, multiple Mashable editors were unable to access the Threads app. DownDetector showed a spike in user error reports for Threads beginning around 8:30 a.m.…
Amid the second phase of a high-profile child safety trial in New Mexico, Meta is announcing new measures designed to ensure teens on its platforms are subject to age-related protections. Meta announced in a blog post Tuesday that parents in the U.S. on two of its social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram, will receive a…
Do you remember Friendster? The early-2000s social networking platform has now returned roughly 24 years later with a whole new gimmick: Users can only connect with real-life friends. The founder of the new Friendster, Mike Carson, is promoting the relaunched social media platform as being free of any ads and algorithms. But, that’s not all…
Last year, DJI’s Mic Mini was one of our favorite microphones for content creators. It just got a sequel — though you may have to wait to see it. The miniature microphone array is back in the form of DJI Mic Mini 2, first spotted by The Verge. It’s available now in most markets around…
I’ve never been a Nintendo person. And yet, I’ve never been this completely captured by one of its games until the company’s latest release, Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream. My rapturous attention to it is equal parts FOMO and genuine amazement at the unhinged ways people are playing this game. It’s taken over my timeline…
Omegle is in the ground, and Thundr is dancing on its grave. Since Omegle’s demise in late 2023, the internet has been introduced to a number of Omegle alternatives, from the tame to the explicit. Thundr is a random video and text chat service that’s emulating Omegle the most in 2026. Think of it as…