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…
In a post-Omegle world, there are many one-on-one cam sites to consider. Thundr, OmeTV, Uhmegle — but none of these scratch the itch that a lot of users went to Omegle for: online sex. While most of these sites do have a large community of people utilizing them to bust a nut on the internet,…
Social media app X rolled out a new custom timeline feature earlier this week, and so far, user reactions have been positive. The new feature is reminiscent of TweetDeck, the popular feature that recently rebranded as X Pro. Using the new custom timelines feature, X users will be able to create custom feeds for specific…
Have your Instagram posts been turning black and white without your consent? You’re not alone. According to Engadget, some users on Facebook and presumably elsewhere (though I wasn’t able to find a lot of complaints on X) have complained that photos uploaded to the Instagram app in color were being automatically and unintentionally turned black…
Bluesky, the social media app popular with X expatriates, suffered a widespread outage on Thursday, April 16. And in a thread posted on the official Bluesky profile, the app’s leaders revealed the cause of the outage — a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on…