“I think there should be a public chat app with over 1 billion people.”
“Twitter had the opportunity to do this, but was not successful. Hopefully we can do that,” Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday (05/07/2023) via his Threads account.
When it first launched, Meta Threads published in over 100 countries, including the United States.
However, the Threads app is not yet available in the European Union.
This is how threads work
Threads is positioned as an application that allows people to have real-time public conversations with each other.
Threads also helps improve Instagram, the most important app in Meta’s suite of products.
Instagram tied the thread tightly around itself.
If you want to register for the new app, you currently need an Instagram account.
For those who already have an Instagram account, the username on Threads will also be the same as on Instagram.
If needed, users can import their list of people they follow on Instagram directly into Thread.
Users verified by Instagram will also be verified in the new app.
Users can set their Threads account as private or public.
Differences to Twitter
Although similar to Twitter, it turns out that Threads has a difference.
In-app threads don’t support direct messages like Twitter.
However, Instagram says it will add the feature to Threads if new users request it.
