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Introducing the World to THREADS : A Twitter Equivalent Launched by Meta

In an era of social media dominance, Instagram has consistently evolved to meet the changing needs and preferences of its users. One such development is Threads, an innovative app designed to enhance communication and strengthen connections among Instagram users. Created as a standalone companion to Instagram, Threads offers a streamlined and intimate messaging experience, empowering users to connect with their closest friends and share their everyday moments in a private, focused environment.
In this article, we will explore the features and benefits of Threads, highlighting how it has transformed the way we interact on Instagram.
Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company’s newly-launched Threads app aims to out-rival Twitter.
Enhanced Privacy and Selectivity:
One of the distinguishing features of Threads is its emphasis on privacy and selectivity. The app enables users to create a curated list of close friends with whom they wish to communicate more intimately. By utilising this list, users can easily share photos, videos, and messages exclusively with their inner circle, ensuring that their most personal moments remain private. Threads promotes a more authentic and trustworthy environment, as it encourages users to engage in genuine conversations with the people they trust the most. This is basically a lovechild between Facebook and Instagram!
Status Updates for Real-Time Connections:
Keeping up with friends’ activities and whereabouts is an integral part of social media, and Threads takes this aspect to a new level. The app allows users to set personalized status updates, which inform their close friends about their current activities, moods, or general whereabouts. These status updates, conveyed through emoji icons or short text, create a sense of immediacy and enable users to better understand each other’s lives in real-time. Whether you’re “ Studying at the library” or “
Enjoying a beach day,” Threads bridges the gap between online and offline connections.
Threads – which is not launching in the European Union for now – allows users to post up to 500 characters, and has many features similar to Twitter.
The app passed 10 million sign-ups in its first seven hours, Mr Zuckerberg said.
Earlier, he said that keeping the platform “friendly… will ultimately be the key to its success”.
How does Threads work?
On Threads, posts can be shared to Instagram and vice versa and can include links, photos, and videos of up to a maximum of five minutes in length.
However, some early users on Wednesday reported problems when uploading images, hinting at teething problems.
Users see a feed of posts, which Meta calls “threads”, from people they follow as well as recommended content.
They are able to control who can “mention” them and filter out replies to posts that contain specific words.
Unfollowing, blocking, restricting or reporting other profiles is also possible, and any accounts users block on Instagram are automatically blocked on Threads.
While Meta stresses ties to Instagram, media coverage has focused on its similarity to Twitter, with some investors describing the app as a “Twitter killer”.
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