What is Threads? Everything you need to know about the potential ‘Twitter Killer’ in 2023.
The power of social media has been on its rise to make impact in our everyday businesses globally.
From the time of MySpace, Foursquare, Tumblr, Vine, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and LunarStorm in 2000 that has been described as “the world’s first social media on the Internet” by the founder.
For recent years, many social media platforms have been on its rise and been noted as popular social media apps over the internet.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok, Telegram, WeChat, WhatsApp and many others have dominated the world of social media these days — as part of medium making communication very easier to mankind.
Today, in popular news, another social media platform has been on its rise from Instagram, as part of Meta applications.
Twitter as social media platform for prospect business personalities has seen some noticeable changes after Elon Musk took over the platform in October 2022 and has run it with a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants approach.
What Is Threads?
Threads is a new app from the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The platform looks a lot like Twitter, with a feed of largely text-based posts — although users can also post photos and videos — where people can have real-time conversations.
According to Meta, the messages that are posted to Threads will have a 500-character limit. Just like the way the all time popular social media platform Twitter works, it limits the number of characters you can post, users are able to reply to post, repost and quote others’ Threads posts.
Users can also enjoy the integrated features from Instagram into Threads, offering its users the chance to share posts from Threads directly to Instagram Stories.
Thread accounts can also be listed as public or private. As same platform on Meta, all the Verified Instagram accounts are automatically verified on Threads as well.
“The vision for Threads is to create an option and friendly public space for conversation,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Threads post following the launch. “We hope to take what Instagram does best and create a new experience around text, ideas, and discussing what’s on your mind.”
As millions of users are joining the platform and using the app, some users did experience occasional glitches and issues that are getting content to load in the early hours after its launched.
How Do You Sign Up To Threads?
Are you wondering how you would sign up to threads and how you can leave the platform anytime you want? There are many useful guide to walk you through how to delete your Threads account easily.
Users sign up through their Instagram accounts and keep the same username, password and account name, although they can edit their bio to be unique to Threads. Users can also import the list of accounts they follow directly from Instagram, making it super easy to get up and running on the app.
Users can temporarily deactivate their threads profile since it’s not quiet so easy to leave Threads, according to the company’s privacy policy that goes that “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.”
Where Is Threads Available?
As part of the eligible countries that can use Threads, there are over 100 eligible countries and more than 30 official languages via Apple’s iOS and Android, according to Meta.
Could Threads Be The ‘Twitter Killer’
Threads is just the latest platform launched in recent months in hopes of unseating Twitter as the go-to app for real-time, public conversations. But it may have the greatest chance at success.
Since Elon Musk took over Twitter late last year, many Twitter users have expressed desire for an alternative and Threads can also be the best to come in time.