Meta launches Twitter competitor Threads:

Meta's new app Threads is a direct competitor to Twitter. It allows users to post text, photos, and videos and includes a messaging feature. To use Threads, sign in with your Facebook or Instagram account, create a new post, and add text, photos, or videos before publishing. Threads' biggest features are the ability to create groups of close friends and the Status feature, which shares what you're currently doing. Overall, Threads offers a more intimate social media experience focused on personal content and close friends.

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Key Points

1. Threads is a new application built by the Instagram team for text sharing and public conversations.

2. Log in with your Instagram account, posts can be up to 500 characters long and can include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes long.

3. Threads is working with ActivityPub to enable an open, interoperable social network.

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Instagram, owned by Mark Zuckerberg, has launched Threads as a competitor to Twitter. Threads is an application developed by the Instagram team for text sharing. According to Meta, Threads provides a new independent space for real-time updates and public conversations, and is working to make Threads compatible with open, interoperable social networks.

Instagram is where billions of people worldwide connect through photos and videos. Threads is designed to take advantage of what Instagram does best and extend it to text, creating a positive and creative space for expressing your ideas. Like on Instagram, with Threads, you can follow friends and creators with common interests and connect with them, including people you follow on Instagram and other platforms.

How to Use Threads

Login: It’s very simple, just log in with your Instagram account.

Profile: Your Instagram username and verification will be retained, and you can choose to customize your profile specifically for Threads.

Child Protection: Every minor under the age of 16 (or under 18 in some countries/regions) who joins Threads will default to profile privacy mode.

Following: You can choose to follow accounts that are the same as those on Instagram and find more people who care about the same things as you.

AI and Other Assistive Features: Core assistive features currently available on Instagram, such as screen reader support and AI-generated image descriptions, are also enabled on Threads.

Feed: Your Threads feed includes topics posted by people you follow, as well as recommended content from new creators you haven’t discovered yet.

Post Types and Length: Posts can be text, photos, links, or videos up to 5 minutes long, with a maximum text length of 500 characters.

Sharing: You can easily share Threads posts to your Instagram Story, or share your post as a link to any other platform of your choice. Threads’ Biggest Feature: Interoperable Social NetworkMeata plans to make Threads compatible with ActivityPub, an open social network protocol established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) responsible for open standards to support modern web. This will allow Threads to interoperate with other applications that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress, achieving a new level of connection that most social applications cannot achieve. Other platforms, including Tumblr, also share plans to support the ActivityPub protocol in the future. Meata aims to give you better control over your audience on Threads – working with ActivityPub to provide you with options to stop using Threads and move your content to other services. The Threads vision is that people using compatible applications will be able to follow and interact with people on Threads without a Threads account and vice versa, ushering in a new era of diverse and interconnected networks. If you have a public profile on Threads, this means your posts can be accessed from other applications, making it easy to meet new friends without extra effort. If you use a profile privacy mode, you will be able to approve users who want to follow you and interact with your content on Threads. The benefits of open social network protocols go far beyond the way people follow each other. Developers can build new features and user experiences, easily plug into other open social networks, and speed up innovation and experimentation. Each compatible application can set its own community standards and content moderation policies, meaning people can choose spaces that align with their values. We believe this decentralized approach, similar to the protocols that govern email and the web itself, will play an important role in the future of online platforms.Threads is Meta’s first application compatible with open social network protocols. Meta hopes that by joining this rapidly growing interoperable service ecosystem, Threads will help people find their community no matter what application they use.Threads Next StepsMeta has launched Threads for iOS and Android in over 100 countries/regions, and users in these countries/regions can download the application from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.Apart from working hard to make Threads compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Meta will soon be adding many new features to help you continue to discover threads and creators that interest you, including improved digest recommendations and more powerful search functionality. This makes it easier to stay up to date on topics and trends in real time.

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