What is Threads?
Threads is a new app from Meta,same like Twitter.It seems that Meta has spotted a potential gap in the market for a blogging social network that isn’t beset by some of the issues currently facing Twitter. Interestingly, a similar app also called Threads.
What exactly Threads offers?
The Threads app allows you to post messages of up to 500 characters in length, which is significantly higher than the 280 characters currently offered by Twitter and the same as the default 500 characters. Your posts can include photos, videos up to five minutes long, and web links.
What is different about Threads?
So far, so familiar. However, there is a major plan for Threads in the pipeline. Although it isn’t the case at present, the aim is to make Threads compatible with Activity-pub. This is a decentralized social networking protocol that allows social networking apps to interconnect with other apps that use the same protocol. The goal is to allow Threads users to interact with accounts on different social media platforms
How does Threads work?
Once you’ve downloaded the app, you can sign in with your existing Instagram account , Your username will carry over to your Threads account, as will verification if you have it, and you can choose to customise your profile for your new Threads account.
You can then choose to automatically follow the same accounts that you already follow on Instagram, as well as finding and adding new accounts to follow from within the Threads app. Your feed is a mix of posts from people you follow and recommended content. You can reply to, re-post, or quote posts from other people in much the same way that you can in rival apps.
Is Threads safe?
Threads offers many of the features that are built into Instagram to help you filter out the content that you’d rather not see. You can control who can reply to you or mention you in a post, and you can add a word filter so that any posts containing those words don’t appear in your feed or in your replies. Any accounts you’ve blocked on Instagram are automatically blocked on Threads too, and you can un-follow, restrict, or block accounts from directly within Threads.