2023-10-13 05:32:17
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Threads was implementing a new edit button. With this new feature, you can edit your post as many times as you want within five minutes of posting it.
Good news for Threads users, Meta is trying to give the application a little more functionality to convince X users to abandon Elon Musk’s social network. One of the new features is an edit button, which will allow users to not have to repost a new post when they want to correct an error.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, adds that users will have up to five minutes to edit a post. To highlight this delay, the app will display a countdown timer above an editable message.
Also read – Threads: Twitter competitor will launch a highly anticipated feature
Threads wants to be the free alternative to X
Although the five-minute window is narrower than the one-hour window offered by rival X (Twitter), it is also available for free, unlike the Elon Musk-owned social media platform. On the latter, tweet editing is reserved for X Premium, which costs almost 10 euros per month.
The problem is that Threads will not show a message modification history. This harms transparency, especially if someone significantly changes the content of a post that is quickly gaining popularity.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, also noted that Threads was adding the ability to post voice clips. These offer “karaoke-style transcription.” We also know that Threads is working on a new “Trends” category, where we can find all the trending topics.
Overall, this is a big win for Threads and a great incentive for new users to join the platform and for existing users to become more active. The team seems to be listening to user feedback and slowly but surely giving them the features they want. If the application had quickly exceeded 100 million users, in just 4 days, its popularity had also quickly declined. New features should therefore boost user engagement.
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