Alternatives to Twitter – New and Old – have found the audience ready to try a newer social network after Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms that are among them. So is the Threads Meta platform.
What is the strands? How do you create an account?
Threads is the Rival on Twitter based on Meta Text. Is it connected to your Instagram account so you can create an account by registering in using your credentials on Instagram.
How does it differ from Twitter?
Currently, there are no levels and ads paid in the application. However, your Instagram verification sign is carried out – even if you have paid for verified meta. Users can take advantage of their instagram network to find the people they need to follow.
The app started more than a year ago, but there are no Twitter -like features, such as long videos, direct messages or direct audio rooms.
How do you use the strands?
The platform is currently available in iOS and Android in more than 100 countries. However, due to concerns of intimacy, the app was not currently available in the EU until December 2023. At the time, Meta launched strands in the region with an opportunity for users to browse the social network without an account of the opportunity to publish or interact with other posts.
Because you are entering your Instagram account, you will be able to follow all the people you follow. You will also import username, name and settings, like the block list.
How many users does this have?
Since November 2024, Threads have more than 275 million active monthly users.
It has been a steady rise. Within hours from the beginning, the strands exceeded the mark of 10 million recordings and reached 100 million users within just five days of starting.
What are the thread posting restrictions?
Users can post 500 characters in a post in the application. The post supports images, video and gif. A topic posting up to 10 media articles. Since July 17, Threads announced that it should strengthen the limits of the norm, or the limits on how users can see, due to spam attacks.
Can you use thread online?
Yes, you can see the posts and also publish from Threads.net.
How do you delete your thread account?
You can disable or delete your thread account. By the end of 2023, you have had to delete your Instagram account, according to the “supplementary privacy policy” of the meta to delete your Threads account. Meta keeps your data for 30 days after the initial deletion request. If you change your mind, you can cancel the deletion within 30 days.
How can you adjust your thread experience?
Threads allows you to drink search terms and tags as resources. The company is also testing a way to create custom resources by adding specific profiles and terms to a new food. For the longest time, the algorithm source of the social network “For you” was predetermined food for users, but now you can put any resource to predetermine.
Meta’s newest social platform was also inspired by the rival social network Bluesky and made its version of “starter packages” – lists of people who had to follow based on various topics. In March, Meta announced that Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile, which will also direct users to active conversations about the topic ..
Can you make people on topics?
You cannot send a message to the user in the application. Instagram leader Adam Mosseri said the goal is to “not build another box and instead allow people to send yarn to other apps.”
Does the strands have an api?
After testing API with partners selected for several months, the threads finally launched the PII API in June 2024. Developers can build tools to publish user posts and receive their posts and gain knowledge of engagement. These tools still can’t help you delete your posts.
Does this mean we will have third -party clients?
At this time, the Threads AP has restrictions, how not to allow developers to receive the time limit. So it is not possible to create alternative clients for topics at the moment.
Is the strands part of the Fediversity?
Partially. Earlier in 2024, Threads started an experiment to let the user share their posts into fediver. So, if users activate the division of fediver, people in other compatible networks of activity like mastodone can follow them and see their posts. Threads also allows users in fedivers to like threads posts.
In 2024, Meta extended the support of Fediversity by adding a way for threads users to see responses from fediver users in their posts, support for posts created through the API threads to be distributed in Fediversity, and also check who follows them from other servers.
In December 2024, the company began allowing Threads users to follow profiles from other fedivers servers.
What are some features that are currently missing from the strands?
- Full integration of fediversal
- Assignment of posts (soon)
- Messages
- Lists support
- Support to third party customers
What are threads data collection practices?
Because you are using an Instagram account to sign up on topics, Meta says “is part of your Instagram account.” Users have already raised questions about the application data collection, given the intimacy labels mentioned in the App Store.
In response to questions about the App Store privacy labels, Meta Rob Sherman’s Deputy Chief of Intimacy said last year that these labels are similar to other company applications.
“The labels are similar to the rest of our app, including Instagram, in what our social applications receive any information (including the data listed in the App Store) that you share in the app,” he said in a threads post at the time.
This story is originally published on July 6, 2023, and is regularly updated.
