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Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.

CEOs of the largest social media companies in the United States testified in front of Congress Wednesday before the lawmakers launched into questions of their own.

A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest.

X, formerly known as Twitter, has begun testing a program that will see new users forking over $1 per year to use the service.

Instagram is now pushing Recommended Threads among traditional feed posts in a bid to bring users back to the Meta's text-first social media app.

Instagram is internally testing the ability to increase the length of Reels from three minutes to 10 minutes -- in an apparent bid to compete with the long-form video content available on TikTok and YouTube.

Meta is planning to roll out the web version of Threads -- one of its most-requested features -- over the next few days.

Photographers who have been on X (formerly Twitter) for more than nine years may want to check if their photos posted before December 2014 are still on the website after millions of images were deleted.

Contrary to claims from some photographers, Elon Musk did not steal Twitter's new plain X logo. However, the company did take the @x username.

Threads has rolled out its most substantial update since its launch nearly three weeks ago and released the highly requested "Following" tab in the app.

Over the past few days, Elon Musk's Twitter rebranded as X, killing off the iconic blue bird logo in the process. The new logo for the brand isn't particularly unique, which has led to some incorrect assumptions about its origin.

Threads has seen a nearly 70% decline in the number of daily active users since its peak -- as user engagement on Meta's Twitter-rival app continues to fall dramatically.

TikTok has announced that it will be rolling out a feature that will allow users to share text posts -- just 19 days after Meta launched its new text-based platform Threads.

Threads has rolled out its first major feature update since its launch two weeks ago -- after reportedly losing half of its active users.

The engagement on Meta's Twitter rival app Threads has already dropped off -- after it hit 100 million users barely a week after its launch.

Instagram's Threads app has hit 100 million users barely a week since its launch -- making Meta's Twitter rival app easily the fastest growing app ever.

Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update.

About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images.

Meta was rumored to be working on a standalone Twitter competitor, and a new leak shows not only what it might look like, but also how it would pair and sync with Instagram and other apps.

After a gunman opened fire outside a crowded mall in Allen, Texas on Saturday, grisly images spread onto social media showing the lifeless and blood-splattered bodies of the victims and the assailant.

Twitter suffered a major outage as photos and links went offline for all users for an elongated period of time today, while some users reported the entire social network's site wasn't functioning.

Twitter is working on an in-app currency called "coins" which is designed to help creators earn money on the platform.

A photo agency has filed a $228.9m copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter after thousands of its photographs were uploaded by users of the social media site.

Last week, Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use the announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of views one of my photos received on Twitter vs. Flickr.

Hive Social is back online, two weeks after its creators abruptly shut the service down in order to address security issues.

Less than a week after the reports indicated that Meta was investigating making a Twitter competitor, Instagram is rolling out that feature, called Notes, to all users.

Instagram has officially launched "Candid Stories" -- a new dual camera feature that copies the photo-sharing app BeReal.

After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram.

Hive Social, an app many considered to be the new alternative to Instagram and Twitter, has completely shut down its servers to address security issues after it struggled to handle a recent surge in sign-ups.

Colorize Bot is an incredible Twitter tool that transforms black and white photos into color using artificial intelligence (AI).

As protests around China’s zero-Covid policy mount, police appear to be searching phones for apps like Instagram, Twitter, and Telegram, which are banned in the country, with the goal of stopping photos of the protests from being released.

Astronomer and astrophotographer Mary McIntyre was locked out of her Twitter account for three months after a video of a meteor she published to the platform was flagged as "intimate content."

A photographer dad has figured out a magic word that always seems to elicit a natural smile from his son when shooting a photo; he simply yells out "poop."

Twitter is expanding video support on its platform including a new "immersive" media viewer that looks a lot like Instagram Reels, which of course is just a copy of TikTok.

Instagram will be testing a "repost" feature that would allow users to share other people's posts in their own feeds.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Instagram "a super positive space" during a lengthy interview on The Joe Rogan Experience on Thursday.

Photographer Annie Leibovitz is facing criticism for her photos of United States Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as many argue the photos are poorly lit.