Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

Nearly three years after launching as a competitor to Twitter (now X), Threads has reaches 500 million monthly active users, the company announced Tuesday. The Meta-owned social platform also announced a series of new features launching today, including a “Your Algo” tool that lets users control what they see in their feed. The new Your Algo feature builds on the platform’s “Dear Algo” tool launched in February, which lets users tell Threads what…