COLIN KIRKLAND
Colin Kirkland is a staff writer at MediaPost covering social media and mobile media, among other topics.
- Threads Surpasses X In Mobile Users: Report in
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01/20/2026
Threads has surpassed X in daily active mobile users, having further increased its user count in previous months while X's continues to decline, per a new report from Similarweb.
- TikTok Shop Offers Merchants More AI-Powered Tools in
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01/19/2026
TikTok Shop is attempting to boost merchant sales with the introduction of more AI-powered shopping tools designed to better showcase products and convert consumers.
- Roblox Age-Verification Faces Widespread Criticism in
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01/15/2026
Roblox is under fire from players, developers and child safety experts for disrupting the in-app chat feature while failing to properly protect children from predators, according to multiple reports.
- Mobile App Economy Sees More In-App Spending, Subscription Reliance in
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01/15/2026
Marketers, app developers and publishers saw consumers spending more money on mobile apps in 2025, according to a new report from app intelligence company Appfigures, with revenue up 21%
year-over-year despite app downloads dropping for the fifth year in a row.
- YouTube To Allow Parents To Block Kids From Watching 'Shorts' in
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01/14/2026
As Australia and other countries around the world pass laws that ban children from social-media platforms, YouTube is giving parents more power to control what video content their kids see.
- YouTube Opens Ad Rev Monetization For Dramatized Controversial Content in
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01/13/2026
YouTube is giving creators a chance to earn more ad revenue when posting videos with content that advertisers consider controversial - highlighting the company's continued attempts to help creators
monetize on the platform.
- Meta Plans Reality Labs Job Cuts, Pivots Further Away From Metaverse Focus in
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01/13/2026
Meta plans to cut around 10% of employees within the division who are working specifically on metaverse-focused products, including virtual-reality headsets and the company's Horizon Worlds social
gaming platform, according to "The New York Times."
- Meta Announces AI Infrastructure Initiative in
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01/12/2026
On Friday in a post on Threads, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced "Meta Compute," a new "top-level initiative" that maps out the tech giant's decade-long plan to develop a global artificial
intelligence.
- Dina Powell McCormick Named Meta President, Vice Chair in
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01/12/2026
Meta has hired former financial exec and security advisor to President Donald Trump Dina Powell McCormick as the company's new president and vice chair.
- X Limits Grok AI Image Generation To Paying Subs in
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01/09/2026
While the official Grok app allows anyone to generate AI images for free, the Grok account issued a statement this week that it will no longer generate and edit images on the platform for non-paying
users.