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48 In this photograph illustration, the Threads logo by META is displayed connected a smartphone with Twitter logo successful the background. Threads is the caller societal web from Meta Platforms which was launched connected the 5th of July 2023.
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Meta's caller text-based societal media app Threads launched a highly-requested caller diagnostic Tuesday: a "Following" tab.
The caller tab allows users to spot chronological posts from radical they travel alternatively of the little cohesive, algorithmically curated contented that appears successful the "For you" feed. Many users person been asking Meta executives similar CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram main Adam Mosseri for the diagnostic since Threads archetypal launched earlier this month.
"Ask and you shall receive," Zuckerberg wrote successful a station connected Tuesday.
Meta's Threads added a chronological Following feed
Meta said Tuesday that the Threads update volition besides let users to benignant their "Activity" provender by follows, quotes and reposts, let radical to spot their liked posts successful their settings and construe definite posts that look successful a antithetic language.
Many users were speedy to constituent retired that the "For you" and "Following" tabs look akin to the existing layout connected Twitter, which was rebranded to "X" arsenic portion of the latest alteration to the level since Elon Musk acquired it precocious past year.
But the comparisons bash not halt there. Threads has a strikingly akin look and consciousness to Twitter, arsenic galore of Twitter's halfway icons and features similar quality limits person been replicated connected the platform. Threads has been touted by Meta executives similar Mosseri arsenic a much affirmative "public square" for communities "that ne'er truly embraced Twitter."
Threads archetypal launched connected July 5 portion a bid of outages and arguable rate bounds policies were impacting Twitter users. The level rapidly climbed to 100 cardinal users, though engagement connected the app has since tapered.
Meta said Tuesday that it is moving to present caller features to Threads arsenic rapidly arsenic possible.
