Threads officially moves to Threads.com and updates its web app

Instagram Threads, Meta’s newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. The transition will coincide with a handful of quality-of-life improvements for the Threads web app, including features to more easily access custom feeds, saved posts, and likes, as well as other tools for creating new columns, copying posts for resharing, finding your favorite creators from X on Threads, and more. Meta had initially launched its new social app in July 2023 on the URL Threads.net, as a Sequoia-backed Slack alternative startup had owned the Threads.com domain at the time. (That startup sold to Shopify last year.) In September 2024, Meta acquired the Threads.com domain name and later began redirecting the URL Threads.com to Threads.net. Starting today, Meta explains that users will no longer be redirected from the .com to the .net; it will be the other way around. Going forward, if you type in Threads.com in your browser, you’ll go ... Read full article.