How to use Threads, the new social network with which everyone is running away from Twitter

2023-07-06 14:01:42

lovers of the world Twitterdissatisfied with the latest changes implemented by Elon Muskare suddenly moving to Threads (or “Threads” in Spanish)the new social network from the firm Meta that seeks to unseat its peer from the little bird.

In the last few hours Threads became available on the Android Appstoreso you are receiving thousands of trial downloads Worldwide. Initially, its version was only for iPhone, in the AppleStorewhich made it somewhat inaccessible to other users.

Your registration is simple and easy: with the Instagram account, the person can log in with the same user and join this new world of Metawhat are you doing match contacts from one social network to another. Curiously, or not so much, in addition Threads allows you to share your own content on its archrival Twitter.

This version of Threads is already configured in several languagesincluding English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Thai, Ukrainian, and Greek.

How to use Threads, the new social network from Meta

The use of Threads is, for the moment, pretty rudimentary. Who have already joined the world Twitter, you will not find big differences with her. For now, It can be used to send short messages, with images and gifts.

Just like its competitor, in Threads you can “like” other people’s posts, republish them in your own account and also reply to start a conversation. Likewise, you can start a thread on a certain topic.

Unlike Twitterfor now, cannot send private messages to other users; Furthermore, many of them are choosing to keep their account privatesomething that Twitter also offered but was rarely used.

Threads and a key caveat

But not everything is so simple in Threads. Although the glitters deceive us a bit in this beginning, From Meta they announced that a wide variety of personal data will be used for the operation of the new application.

This is noted in the AppStorewhere Meta points out that, through Threads, the company allows access to different user data with your income. Among them are considered health data, financial information, contacts, location and purchases, among others.

Although this is something that can scare you, it works more like an alert. The thing is most social networks already have access to this same data, through their own privacy policy.


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