This week, Instagram launched its new app, Threads. microblogging It was designed to “share ideas and trends by text,” which Twitter aims to be its main competitor.
Meta has been working on this new social network for the past few months. The new platform, designed with a very similar goal to Twitter, Share experiences and insights from short text posts.
Although slightly ahead of schedule, Threads is now available for users using iOS and Android smartphones in over 100 countries. As Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said via a post on this social network.
The creators of Threads describe it as “an app where communities come together to discuss everything from topics that interest you today to topics that will be trending tomorrow.” On this platform you can: Share ideas, opinions and creativity via text posts. Likewise, it allows users to follow and directly connect with their favorite creators and other users with whom they share their tastes.
(More: Threads started working with no major features and multiple errors)
On the eve of Threads’ release, some creators were able to be part of an early access program to test how it works According to social network analyst and consultant Matt Navarra, the app. In fact, some of the first users to join Threads were Meta executives like CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram director Adam Mosseri.
Threads has a very similar interface to Twitter’s. and its operation is the same. That is, you can create short text posts with the possibility of developing conversation threads and limiting who responds to those posts.
Although Threads is a completely independent platform, it is linked to Instagram. So much so that the same user account as on the social network in question is used to navigate through it. In fact, the same username and profile photo are used.
Based on this, Threads has an option that allows users to automatically follow the same accounts. Those who follow on Instagram before. If any of them aren’t in Topics yet, they’ll be shown as waiting to join and a follow request will be sent to them if they’re private.
(Also: Attention! Topic profile can only be deleted if you delete your Instagram account)
Same way, Users with a private profile can set whether their Instagram followers can also follow them in Topics. automatically or, on the contrary, only if it can do some specific calculations. Users under the age of 16 will have a private profile by default.
As explained by Instagram in a statement on its blog, users will be able to create text posts of up to 500 characters and add links, photos and videos of up to five minutes. time. Like this to feed The main content will consist of threads posted by accounts you follow and suggested content from new creators.
Same way, The platform detailed that a Topic post can be “easily” shared on Instagram stories. or as a link on another platform.
As analyst Alessandro Paluzzi has shown earlier, you can configure who has permission to reply to the post with three options ranging from all users, only the profiles the user follows, or only the users specified in the post. In addition, Posts can be reposted or ‘Liked’ by other accounts.
Following this line, users can also control who can mention or reply to them within the app. And just like on Instagram, have the option to add hidden words to filter replies to threads containing these specific words. The mechanism for blocking, restricting or reporting profiles is also the same. In fact, accounts blocked on Instagram are automatically restricted in Topics as well.
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Attention Topics follow all Instagram community guidelines about content and interactions in the app to protect security and privacy.
On the other hand, another feature Topics is that it is an open space that can connect to other decentralized social networks like Mastodon., because it will integrate the ActivityPub protocol, although not at the time of its release. As they stated, they are still working on this compatibility and making them interoperable and “could shape the future of the internet.”
If you have a verified Instagram account, you’ll be immediately verified in Topics for free when you sign up. While on Twitter, you have to pay to have the blue chulito and in return you get benefits like more characters in the feeds, among others.
Threads don’t yet have direct messages and hashtags that segment conversations. But a great plus it brings is the possibility to configure alerts that invite you to rest every 10, 20 and 30 minutes.
Finally, keep in mind that if you delete your Threads account, the same will automatically happen to your Instagram account.
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