2024-12-17
“What's cooler than 10 million daily actives? 100 million daily actives.”
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Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has 100M+ DAUs, revealing its DAU figure for the first time, and 300M+ MAUs, up from 275M+ MAUs in November 2024
It's a notable milestone not just because it's a big number; it's also the first time Meta has a daily active user figure publicly.
2024-09-24
Great episode of Decoder with Browser Company CEO Josh Miller and @reckless1280 about Arc and the future of web. Really interesting and (mostly) candid conversation. — Tech Threads — https://www.theverge.com/...
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An interview with The Browser Company CEO Josh Miller on Arc Search being an operating system, competing with Chrome and Safari, monetization, AI, and more
The Browser Company cofounder thinks it's time to modernize the browser and reinvent the web. Threads: @manton and @joshmcconnell Threads: Manton Reece / @manton : Listening to the...
2023-12-10
I don't know, I feel like forcing your customers to use an unsecure messaging standard (SMS) when talking to anyone else that isn't in the walled garden is a weird look. It made sense early on to create a BBM alternative, but it's so widely known now SMS is not at all secure so it goes against Apple's whole safety-first brand. …
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After Beeper Mini's recent outage, Apple says it took steps “to protect our users by blocking techniques that exploit fake credentials” to gain iMessage access
A few days after the team at Beeper proudly announced a way for users to send blue-bubble iMessages directly …
2023-02-09
“This new Bing will make Google come out and dance, and I want people to know that we made them dance.” That's some quote from Satya. 👀 https://www.theverge.com/...
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Q&A with Satya Nadella on Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI, using AI to improve search as a product, competition with Google, the Prometheus model, and more
I'm coming to you from Microsoft's campus in Redmond, where just a few hours ago, Microsoft announced that the next version …