Jay Peters
Meta knows some features are missing from Threads on the web.
“This is an early v1,” Tom Bender, a PM on the Threads team, said in a post. “We’re painfully aware of the feature gaps and it’s going to improve quickly.”
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Barbie is now the top-grossing movie of the year in North America.
It’s already earned $575.4 million in North America, according to The Hollywood Reporter, beating out The Super Mario Bros. Movie’s $574.3 million run. Mario is still apparently the bigger movie globally, but Barbie is on pass to surpass it.
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Threads on the web seems to be rolling out widely.
A bunch of my colleagues at The Verge have just gotten access, so check threads.net to see if you can post from the web, too. I should warn you that the web app isn’t quite as robust as the mobile app — there’s no notification dot when you have notifications! — but it works well enough.
Threads on the web is here
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Good morning.
Apple has released the official trailer for the third season of The Morning Show. The season looks very dramatic; the trailer includes lots of tense conversations and yelling. There’s also apparently a cyberattack — Verge angle!
I didn’t really like season 2, but I’ll probably end up watching this anyway.
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TikTok may ban links to other e-commerce sites like Amazon.
According to a big report about TikTok Shop in The Information, TikTok is considering the big move to better bolster its shopping efforts.
This year, the shopping service is set to lose more than $500 million in the US, The Information says.
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Barbie in IMAX.
One of the biggest movies of the year will be hitting select IMAX theaters for one week beginning September 22nd. The IMAX version will have “exclusive post-credit footage” selected by director Greta Gerwig, according to a press release.
If only there were Barbenheimer double-features in IMAX.