We’re introducing Live Chats on Threads, which lets you participate in public group chats during the biggest cultural events. It’s a new way to build community with others around shared interests like an album drop or a big game as it unfolds. Live Chats are an extension of what’s already happening on Threads — and a new way for creators and fans to connect over what matters to them in real time.

Live Chats are more dynamic than traditional group chats because they’re designed for real-time conversations around cultural moments as they’re happening. A profile ring signals when someone is live, and features like real-time polls, countdowns, and typing indicators keep the conversation lively. Live scores keep chats in sync with games, so the discussion never falls behind the action.

Live Chats will be launching in the NBAThreads Community during the Playoffs, with community champions and media personalities hosting Live Chats during live games: Malika Andrews, Rachel Nichols, Trysta Krick, David Rushing, and Lexis Mickens.

Discover and Join Public Group Chats

You can find and join a Live Chat at the top of the NBAThreads Community feed or one that’s linked in a shared post on your main Threads feed. Live Chats in other Community feeds will be rolling out in the coming months. You can also spot a Live Chat by the red live ring around a host’s profile photo.

Once you join a chat, you can send messages — including photos, videos, and links — back and forth, and tap on reaction emojis to show how you feel. If the chat is full, you can still watch the conversation, react to messages, and vote in polls. Live Chats are open and publicly discoverable even after they’ve ended.

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To start, Live Chats can be hosted by a select group of creators, including Community Champions who are actively engaged in a Threads community, spark conversations, and join others. Eligible hosts can schedule a Live Chat to start by tapping the three-dot menu icon in the top right corner of their Community, and selecting Schedule a Live Chat. From there you can name your chat, choose a start and end time, and invite people to join. You can also share your Live Chat to your Threads feed and Instagram Story to spread the word.

What’s Next

We’re continuing to build on the Live Chats experience with new features coming soon, including co-hosting, play-by-play content with real-time updates, lock screen widgets to surface real-time Live Chats activity, and the ability to quote and share chat messages on your Threads feed.

We’re excited to bring people closer to the moments that matter. We’re starting with the NBAThreads Community as we build and refine Live Chats — rolling out gradually to more communities on Threads so we can learn from early feedback and refine the experience.

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One year ago today, we launched Edits, an app for editing and creating videos right on your phone. We worked with creators to build an app that supports their entire creative process. 

As we mark this first year of building Edits with and for creators, I wanted to share a look back and a preview of what we’re excited to build next. 

The Best Editing Tools, All in One Place

Since launching Edits, we’ve focused on building powerful tools creators need and bringing them into a video editor that feels simple and approachable. We started by removing real-world friction. Creators told us it was hard to read scripts from their notes while filming, so we built an in-app teleprompter. Whether you’re on camera or recording a voiceover, you can speak directly to your audience with confidence, and adjust your text size and speed as you go.

We’ll keep making our core tools better with upgrades coming for captions, including bilingual captions, advanced color adjustments, speed curves, and more. We’re also working to make most tools within the app customizable, so you can start with what’s there and tune it exactly how you like.

A Creative Home You Make Your Own

We built Edits to also support everything around video editing — from inspiration and ideas to feedback after you hit Share. Rather than having to jump from app to app to make a single video, Edits brings everything you need into one seamless workspace.

In the Ideas tab, your saved reels and audio from Instagram live alongside sticky notes for your next big idea. As you use Edits, it gets more personalized with an inspiration feed based on what you post, insights that summarize your comments, and weekly ideas generated just for you.

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You can expect even more ways to tailor Edits to how you work over the next year,  like pinning your favorite tools, getting more insights about your followers, and starting every project with your personalized setup ready to go.

Creating Together

With Edits, we believe creativity grows through community: through mentorship, encouragement, and education. That’s why we’ve worked with creators like Ethan Barber and Cole Bennett to bring their creative approaches into Edits for anyone to try. 

When you tap on an Edits template, you can open the project file to see how it was made, including whether it uses trending audio, and then easily make it into your own. Soon, you’ll be able to make more complex templates with overlays, keyframes, and video effects.

In the next year, you can expect more examples and techniques from creators at your disposal, and easier ways to trade creative building blocks with each other through the app.

What’s Next

We’re focused on making tools that bring your creativity to life — from your first burst of inspiration to the final result. Try Edits if you haven’t already and tag @creators to share what you’ve made. Keep the feedback coming on Instagram and Threads — it directly shapes what we build next.

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Tulsa, Oklahoma will be home to Meta’s newest AI data center — our first data center in the state, 28th in the US, and 32nd in our global fleet. Once operational, this data center will be optimized for our AI workloads, helping to bring our technologies and AI ambitions to life so  people around the world can connect, find their community, and grow their businesses. 

Investing in the Tulsa Community

Meta is committed to playing a positive role in the communities where it operates. Once completed, our Tulsa facility will represent an investment of more than $1 billion in the region. We anticipate over 1,000 construction workers will be onsite at the peak of construction, and once complete, the data center will support approximately 100 operational jobs. We’re also investing more than $25 million in local infrastructure improvements, including roads and water infrastructure.

Local partners are essential to our goal of improving the communities where we have data centers. That’s why we’re providing Eastside Rise with a grant to expand its neighborhood enhancement program across East Tulsa, supporting projects that range from community gardens and public art to home repairs for Tulsa residents. We’re also partnering with Tulsa Tech and Tulsa Community College to support a new, cross-institutional workforce development program and learning lab for digital infrastructure careers. We anticipate this partnership will create a pipeline of 200+ graduates annually in technical trades, including cooling simulation, fiber optics, and structured cabling, along with AI and data analytics programming.

 

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We strive to be good water stewards in communities where we have data centers, and design our data centers to minimize water use. We plan to use a water-efficient closed-loop, liquid-cooled system that recirculates the same water and will use zero water for a majority of the year at our new Tulsa data center. 

We also pay the full costs of water and wastewater service required to support our data centers so the costs aren’t passed on to consumers. We’re partnering with the Tulsa Community Foundation to establish a fund that will support Tulsa residents who are struggling to pay their water bills or are in need of water service line repair and replacement. 

We aim to be water positive in 2030, meaning we will restore more water to local watersheds than we consume. We’re partnering with Phytech on a water restoration project that will provide irrigation technology to Tulsa area farmers to help them minimize water withdrawal while optimizing yields, saving energy and reducing costs. This ten-year project will implement Phytech’s innovative plant-sensor technology across approximately 1,500 acres of vital commodity crops, including corn, soybeans, and winter wheat, to save over 50 million gallons of water per year.

Supporting the Grid

As with all of our data centers, we’ll pay the full costs of the data center’s energy use so they aren’t passed on to consumers. Through our utility bills, we’ll be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on grid infrastructure, like substations and transmission lines, that benefit all consumers and the data center’s electricity use will be matched with 100% clean energy. We have a long history of successfully supporting energy projects and are adding over 1,500 megawatts of clean energy to the grid in Oklahoma. 

We’ll also provide an annual contribution to the Public Service Company of Oklahoma’s (PSO) Light a Life Program, an initiative made possible through PSO’s partnership with the Salvation Army. Our donation to Light a Life will provide financial assistance to help customers in Oklahoma who are struggling to pay their energy bills.

Designing, building, and maintaining facilities that are positive contributors to our communities matters to us. We look forward to collaborating with the Tulsa, Oklahoma community to bring this data center online. 

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