Threads: A New Text-Based Sharing Method
Threads
Threads is a new Instagram app for sharing text updates and participating public conversations.
You log in with your Instagram account, and postings can be up to 500 characters long, with links, photographs, and videos lasting up to 5 minutes.
Threads will soon be compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we believe will determine the internet's future.
Threads: A New Way to Share With Text
Mark Zuckerberg recently introduced the earliest version of Threads, an app developed by the Instagram team for text-based sharing.
Threads provides a new, unique location for real-time updates and public conversations, whether you're a creator or a casual poster. Threads is being designed to be compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we anticipate will determine the internet's future.
Instagram is a social media platform where billions of people from all over the world connect through photographs and videos.
Threads mission is to take what Instagram does best and expand it to text, creating a joyful and creative platform for you to express yourself.
Threads, like Instagram, allows you to follow and engage with friends and artists who share your interests, including those you follow on Instagram and elsewhere. You can also use our current safety and user controls.
Join the Conversation from Instagram
Threads is simple to use: simply log in using your Instagram account. Your Instagram username and verification will be carried across, and you will be able to personalise your profile for Threads.
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When they join Threads, everyone under the age of 16 (or under the age of 18 in some countries) is automatically assigned a private profile. You might opt to follow the same accounts you do on Instagram to locate additional people who share your interests. Threads supports the same fundamental accessibility features that are accessible on Instagram today, such as screen reader support and AI-generated image descriptions.
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Threads feeds include threads posted by people you follow as well as recommended content from new creators you haven't yet encountered. Posts can be up to 500 characters long and contain links, images, and videos that are up to 5 minutes long. You may quickly share a Threads post to your Instagram story or as a link on any other channel you like.
Tune Out the Noise
Threads was developed with features to facilitate healthy, constructive interactions. Within Threads, you have control over who can mention you or respond to you. You can use hidden words, just like on Instagram, to filter out comments to your threads that contain specified terms. By pressing the three-dot menu, you can unfollow, block, restrict, or report a profile on Threads, and any profiles you've blocked on Instagram will be automatically blocked on Threads.
We take safety seriously, as we do with all of our products, and we will enforce Instagram's Community Guidelines on content and interactions on the app. We've invested more than $16 billion in establishing the teams and technologies needed to secure our users since 2016, and we're still committed to furthering our industry-leading integrity efforts and investments to defend our community.
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Compatible with Interoperable Networks
Threads will soon be compatible with ActivityPub, the open social networking protocol developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization responsible for the open standards that enable the modern web. This will allow Threads to communicate with other apps that use the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress, enabling new forms of connections that are now unavailable on most social apps. Other platforms, such as Tumblr, have stated that they intend to support the ActivityPub protocol in the future.
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We're committed to giving you more control over your Threads audience; our objective is to collaborate with ActivityPub to provide you the choice to stop using Threads and move your material elsewhere.
others using compatible apps will be able to follow and communicate with others on Threads without having a Threads account, ushering in a new era of diverse and interconnected networks. If you have a public profile on Threads, your postings will be accessible from other apps, allowing you to reach out to new individuals with little extra effort. If you have a private profile, you'll be able to accept Threads users who want to follow you and interact with your posts, just like you can on Instagram.
The advantages of open social networking protocols extend far beyond the various methods in which people can follow one another. Developers may create new features and user experiences that can be readily integrated into other open social networks, speeding up the pace of innovation and experimentation. Each compatible app can establish its own community standards and content management regulations, allowing individuals to choose spaces that reflect their values. We believe that, like the protocols that govern email and the web itself, this decentralized method will play a significant part in the future of online platforms.
Threads is Meta's first app designed to be compatible with an open social networking protocol; we expect that by joining this rapidly increasing ecosystem of interoperable services, Threads can assist users in finding their community, regardless of which app they use.
What’s Next
Threads is now available in over 100 countries on iOS and Android, and users in those countries may get it through the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
In addition to working to make Threads compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, we'll be adding a number of new features soon to help you continue to discover threads and creators you're interested in, such as improved feed recommendations and a more robust search function that makes it easier to follow topics and trends in real time.
We're looking forward to hearing your comments as we strive to develop new features and bring exciting new ways to engage on the app.
People also ask
What is threads on social media?
Meta Platforms owns and operates Threads, an American social media platform and social networking service. Users can use the app to post and share text, photographs, and videos, as well as interact with other users' postings by replying, reposting, and liking them.
What is the threads in Instagram?
Threads is an Instagram app that allows you to post threads, comment to others, and follow profiles that interest you. Threads and replies can contain text, links, images, videos, or any combination of these. People who follow you will be able to see your threads and replies in their feed and on your profile.
What does it mean to post a thread?
A thread is a sequence of answers or comments on a social media post that are usually focused on a specific topic or idea, resulting in an organized conversation. A thread on specific social media sites also refers to a sequence of posts on the same topic that are published in chronological order.