Threads May Bring Twitter-Like ‘Following’ Tab Feature Soon: All Details – News18

Meta’s newly-launched social media platform Threads is reportedly planning to introduce a ‘Following’ tab function on the platform, which is analogous to the favored micro-blogging software Twitter.

In response to a question associated to the ‘Following’ tab, Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday stated, “We’re engaged on it, however the subsequent week is all about eliminating bugs and retaining the lights on…”

Replying to another thread, Mosseri explained, “We’ve got to build a following feed over the next couple weeks, but I do think a lot of why people are getting so much engagement right now is because you don’t need to follow a bunch of people in order to discover a bunch of new accounts in feed.”

Meta’s Threads app already has over 95 million posts and customers have appreciated greater than 190 million instances inside a day of its launch. These numbers have been achieved on each iOS and Android platforms, and the app is at present the highest free app on the Apple App Store

Threads is a brand new app, constructed by the Instagram staff, for sharing textual content updates and becoming a member of public conversations. You log in utilizing your Instagram account and posts might be as much as 500 characters lengthy and embody hyperlinks, images, and movies as much as 5 minutes in size.

According to the corporate, much like Instagram, with Threads customers can comply with and join with pals and creators who share their pursuits, together with the folks they comply with on Instagram. Also, customers underneath 16 (or underneath 18 in sure nations) shall be defaulted into a non-public profile once they be part of the app. In Threads, customers have the flexibility to regulate who can point out or reply to them.

Similar to Instagram, customers can add particular phrases to filter out replies that comprise these phrases of their threads. They may unfollow, block, prohibit or report a profile on Threads by tapping the three-dot menu, and any accounts they’ve blocked on Instagram will robotically be blocked on Threads.