Neowin News Feed for: Communities

X is shutting down Communities, focusing on XChat instead

Hamid Ganji — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:30:01 +0000

X's head of product confirmed that the platform is shutting down Communities to focus on its messaging service, XChat. Read more...

Meta's Threads inches closer to X with new Communities feature

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:46:01 +0000

Meta's text-based platform Threads has taken another page from X's book and launched the Communities feature. Read more...

Latest X update for iOS introduces Communities timeline tabs, new sorting options and more

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:40:01 +0000

A new update is rolling out for X users on iOS that brings new filters for Communities, extra sorting options, and more. Read more...

References to a communities feature discovered in Meta Threads app code

Steve Bennett — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:16:01 +0000

Similar to X Communities or Reddit's subreddits, Meta is working on a feature for Threads titled "Loop," as discovered within the app's code. Read more...

Meta rolls out new Facebook features including Local and Explore tabs

Paul Hill — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 16:42:01 +0000

Meta is introducing several new features on Facebook, including Local and Explore tabs, aimed at enhancing user experience and content discovery. Read more...

Meta begins rolling out Communities feature on Messenger

Paul Hill — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:14:02 +0000

Meta is rolling out a new feature in Messenger called Communities. These groups can hold up to 5,000 users who can chat in group chats and see important updates in the home feed from admins. Read more...

WhatsApp Communities gets an event planner, replies to announcement groups

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:12:02 +0000

WhatsApp now lets you create events in group chats that are part of a community. The feature has been under testing for some time, and it will roll out to all group members in the coming months. Read more...

Microsoft Teams launches communities to help better organize community events

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 19:46:01 +0000

The newest feature in Microsoft's business communications' platform brings the ability for people to share and organize in a single, collaborative digital space dedicated to a specific topic. Read more...

WhatsApp rolls out Communities and 32-person video chats

Justin Luna — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:44:01 +0000

WhatsApp has now rolled out its Communities feature, which it has been testing since April. Communities allows users to connect multiple groups together under one umbrella to organize group chats. Read more...

WhatsApp offers 2GB attachments, Communities, emoji reactions, and 32-people voice calls

Alap Naik Desai — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 04:28:01 +0000

The latest stable version of WhatsApp will allow voice calls with up to 32 participants, files as large as 2GB to be shared, private and end-to-end encrypted Communities, and emoji reactions. Read more...

Twitter announces paid Super Follows to give access to exclusive content

João Carrasqueira — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 19:18:02 +0000

During its Virtual Analyst Day, Twitter today announced that a couple of new features for the social network, including Super Follows, where users can pay for exclusive content from others. Read more...

Google refuses to give up, relaunches Google+

Justin Luna — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:04:01 +0000

Google has recently revamped its social networking service Google+. The update focuses on two features, Collections, and Communities. It also aims to make the experience simple and easy for its users. Read more...

Google+ has 135 million active users

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:23:35 +0000

Google announced that its Google+ social networking service has 135 million users "active in just the stream" along with 235 million that are active across Google and 500 million that have upgraded. Read more...

Online Member Communities Shaping the Internet & Society

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:26:12 +0000

Internet media and market research firm Nielsen//NetRatings has released a report detailing the growth of online communities such as Friends Reunited, Blogger, MySpace, and many others. Over 57 million member community web pages are viewed... Read more...

Jamaica: Free Internet For Poorer Communities

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:59:02 +0000

Jamaica's government has just announced a $5 million program to provide free Internet access in poor communities across the island. Phillip Paulwell, Jamaica's Commerce and Technology Minister, said, "The "e-Jamaica" initiative will... Read more...

Lycos Communities disbanded

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:37:46 +0000

Lycos US is closing its chat services and message boards from next month. The portal is pulling the plug on its "Lycos Communities" (including chat, message boards, clubs and image galleries) from February 1. Terra... Read more...

MSN threatening XP Communities

Thu, 22 Nov 2001 23:17:50 +0000

I manage one of the largest and succecfull MSN communities on XP (22,500 members) This morning a couple of managers of MSN communities on XP, received an email telling to remove XP logo's... Read more...