2023-07-06 12:18:16
O ThreadsMeta’s Twitter rival, went live yesterday (a little earlier than expected) and has already surpassed 10 million subscriptions in the first 7 hoursaccording to a post do CEOChief executive officeror executive director.”>1 Mark Zuckerberg.
The executive had already been following the evolution of the number of subscriptions in publications on the network, in order to record when it hit 2 million e 5 million of users. To mark the launch, Zuckerberg took to Twitter (yeah) for the first time in over a decade with the classic Spider-Man meme image.
As we reported, the app is available in several countries (except the European Union), so its rapid pace of growth shows a capability that has not been seen until now with other Twitter rivals, such as Bluesky (which still requires invitation codes ) and Mastodon.
It is important to note, however, that Threads has an advantage, let’s say, “monumental”, in relation to precisely the other rivals of Twitter, since the network is linked to the Instagram – which, according to Business Insiderhas around 2 billion monthly active users.
Thus, Meta allows users to create Threads accounts with their Instagram usernames, as well as connect with people they follow on the photo/video platform, making it easy — and encouraging — to create new accounts.
How to delete a Threads account?
It is a fact that many may have created an account on Threads out of curiosity, without a real interest in maintaining the social network. If that’s your case and you’ve already considered deleting your account, know that this is only possible… by deleting your Instagram account (after all, in practice it should be just one account).
As noticed by TechCrunchaccording to the Threads Supplemental Privacy Policyit is only possible to deactivate your Threads profile without affecting your respective Instagram account.
You can deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but it can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.
If this is really the only option for you, check out in this article how to delete your Instagram account from the app itself.
Web preview and future features
Like every platform in its early days, it is clear that there are inconveniences and features that will have to be improved. Between them, as punctuated by 9to5Mac, although you can access Threads on the web, the interface there is very limited. Therefore, you cannot post, reply, like a post or even follow an account.
Another detail is the absence of viewing options, such as the “For you” and “Following” tabs on Twitter, which display recommended publications and posts only from those you follow, respectively. With Threads, however, there is no similar preview option, which could become a problem when the network has an even larger number of users.
However, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, promised in a response to YouTuber Marques Brownlee that this feature will be made available, although he didn’t give any hint of when. He responded in kind to other user-requested features, including the ability to edit threads, translation into other languages, and multi-account support.
Threader Shortcut
With many people subscribing to Threads and sharing their profile links on other networks such as Twitter and Mastodon, many may have noticed a certain difficulty in following someone through these external links. This problem” was observed (and solved) by the ingenious Federico Viticci, from MacStorieswho developed the shortcut Threader for iOS.
Basically, the shortcut makes it easy to open profile URLs shared on Mastodon directly in the Threads app, bypassing error pages or web display issues.
In practice, Threader takes a screenshot of a given screen with Threads links and performs OCR technologyOptical character recognitionor optical character recognition.”>2 to find network URLs by opening them directly in Threads.
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