Meta Launches the Threads Application, Reaches 100 Million Users in Just 5 Days

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri revealed that they are working on several features for their new social media, Threads, one of which is a special tab for the accounts users follow.

This was revealed from Mosseri’s reply to YouTuber Marques Brownlee, and photographer Noah Kalina, who asked about this feature. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also uploaded a thumbs up emoji in response to Brownlee.

Mosseri also answered “on the list” or “is on the list” to several feature requests such as editing posts, translating options to other languages, and switching between Threads accounts as they already exist on Instagram.

Meta also revealed future plans to integrate Threads with ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that provides the basis for Mastodon’s microblogging service.

The hope, quoted from The Verge, Friday (7/7/2023), Threads users will be able to interact with those who use other ActivityPub-based services.

Even so, quoting Tech Crunch, Adam Mosseri said that Threads did not yet have support for ActivityPub at its launch.

“Soon, you will be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, such as Mastodon. They will also be able to find people on Threads using full usernames, such as @mosseri@threads.net,” said Mosseri.