What is the Instagram Threads app? All your questions have been answered

Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found followers eager to try newer social networks after Elon Musk takes over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, to pour and T2 are some of the social media platforms among people. So is the Meta Threads platform.

What are Threads? How do you create an account?

Threads are Meta’s text-based Twitter competitor. It is linked to your Instagram account, so you can create an account by logging in using your Instagram credentials.

How is it different from Twitter?

Currently, there isn’t paid levels and in-app ads. However, even if you have paid for Meta Verified, your verification badge from Instagram is transferred. Users can use the Instagram network to find people to follow.

The app launched more than a year ago, but it lacks Twitter-like features like long videos, direct messages or live audio rooms.

How do you use Threads?

The platform is currently available on iOS and Android in over 100 countries. However, due to privacy concerns, the program was currently not available in the EU up to December 2023. At that time, Meta launched Threads in the region with the option of users browsing without a social network account cannot post or link to other posts.

Since you are logged in with your Instagram account, you will be able to follow all the people you follow. You’ll also import your username, name, and settings as a blocklist.

How many users does this thing have?

Threads for November 2024 It has more than 275 million monthly active users.

It has been a steady rise. A few hours after starting, Themes crossed the 10 million registration mark and reached 100 million users in just five days of launch.

What are the limitations of posting in threads?

Users can post up to 500 characters in the app. The post supports images, videos and GIFs. A topic post supports up to 10 media items. As of July 17, Threads announced that it should tighten rate limitsor restrictions on how users can view posts due to spam attacks.

Can you use Threads on the web?

Yes, you can view posts and also publish from here Threads.net.

How to delete your Threads account?

You can deactivate or delete your Threads account. You should have done it by the end of 2023 Delete your Instagram accountAccording to Meta “Additional Privacy Policy” To delete your Threads account. Meta retains your data for 30 days after the initial deletion request. If you change your mind, you can undelete within 30 days.

How can you customize your Threads experience?

Threads lets you close search terms and tags as ribbons. The company is also testing a way to create custom ribbons by adding special profiles and conditions for the new tape. For the longest time, the social network’s own algorithmic “For You” feed was the default feed for users, but now you can set any ribbon as default.

Meta’s newest social platform also took inspiration from rival social network Bluesky and Created his own version of “Starter Packs”. — a list of people to follow based on different topics.

Can you DM people on Threads?

You cannot send messages to users in the app. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, said the goal was to “not create yet another inbox and instead allow people to send threads to other apps.”

Does Threads have an API?

After testing the API for several months with select partners, Threads has finally launched Public API in June 2024. Developers can create tools to publish users’ posts and retrieve their own posts and gain insight into engagement. These tools cannot help you delete your posts yet.

Does this mean we will have third party clients?

Threads’ API currently has limitations such as not allowing developers to access timing data. So it is currently not possible to create alternate clients for Threads.

Is Threads part of fediverse?

Partially. In early 2024, Threads began experimenting with permitting users share their posts with fediverse. So if users turn on fediverse sharing, people on other compatible ActivityPub networks like Mastodon can follow them and see their posts. Threads also allows fediverse users to like Threads posts.

In 2024, Meta expanded fediverse support by adding a path Threads for users to see responses from fediverse users on their postssupport for posts created through Threads API to be distributed across Fediverseand also check who is watching them from other servers.

In December 2024, the company began allowing Threads users to follow profiles other fediverse servers.

What are some features currently missing from Threads?

• Full Fediverse integration
• Scheduling posts (coming soon)
• Direct messages
• Support for lists
• Support for third-party clients

What are Threads’ data collection practices?

Since you’re using an Instagram account to access Threads, Meta says “it’s part of your Instagram account.” Users already exist raised questions about the app’s data collectionGiven the privacy labels mentioned in the App Store.

In response to questions about the app’s privacy labels on the App Store, Meta’s senior vice president of privacy, Rob Sherman, said last year that the labels were similar to the company’s other apps.

“Tags are similar to our other apps, including Instagram, in that our social apps accept any information you share in the app (including categories of information listed in the App Store),” he said. Threads post time.

This story was originally published on July 6, 2023 and has been updated to include recent updates.