Twitter alternatives – new and old – have found audiences willing to try a new social network since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms between them. So is the Meta thread platform.
What are the issues? How do you create an account?
The yarns are the opponent of Twitter based on Meta’s text. It is connected to your Instagram account so you can create an account connecting using the Instagram credentials.
How is it different from Twitter?
Currently, there are no levels and ads in the application. However, the verification sign from Instagram is transferred – even if you have paid for a verified meta. Users can benefit from their Instagram network to find people to follow.
The app started more than a year ago, but it does not have features such as Twitter, such as large videos, direct messages or live audio rooms.
How do you use yarn?
The platform is currently available on iOS and Android in more than 100 countries. However, due to concerns about privacy, the application was not currently available in the EU by December 2023. At that time, Meta started the threads in the area with an option for users to browse the social network without an account without the ability to publish or interact with other positions.
Because you are connecting through your Instagram account, you will be able to follow all the people you follow. You will also enter your username, name and settings, such as the block list.
How many users have this thing?
Since November 2024, yarn has more than 275 million monthly active users.
It was a steady increase. Within a few hours of start, the yarns crossed the sign of 10 million registrations and reached 100 million users within just five days of starting.
What are the limitations of posting on issues?
Users can post 500 characters in one post in the app. The post supports images, videos and gifs. A yarn publication supports up to 10 multimedia elements. Since July 17, issues have announced that they should tighten interest rates or limits on how the publications that users can see due to unwanted messages can be seen.
Can you use yarn on the web?
Yes you can see posts and also post from Thread.
How do you delete your yarn account?
You can turn off or delete your account. By the end of 2023, you had to delete your Instagram account, according to META “Supplementary Privacy Policy” To delete your yarn account. META keeps your data for 30 days after the initial deletion request. If you change your mind, you can cancel the deletion within 30 days.
How can you customize your yarn experience?
The yarns allow you to offer search terms and labels as power supply. The company also tests a way to create custom supplies by adding specific profiles and terms to a new flow. For the longer period, the “for you” social network algorithm was the default power supply for users, but now you can adjust any flow to default.
Meta’s newest social platform was also inspired by the bluesky social network and made its own version of “boot packages” – lists of people on the basis of different issues. In March, Meta announced that the issues began to test a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile, which would also direct users to active talks on the subject.
Can DM people on topics?
You cannot send a message to the users in the app. Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said the goal is to “not build another incoming and instead let people send yarns to other applications.”
Do the yarns have API?
After testing the API with selected partners for a few months, the threads finally started the public API in June 2024. Developers can create tools to publish user positions and regain their own positions and acquire information about involvement. These tools cannot yet help you delete your posts.
Does this mean we will have third -party customers?
At the moment, the Threads API has limitations, as it does not allow developers to bring a timetable data. Therefore, it is not possible to create alternative clients for yarn at the moment.
Is it a part of the fediverse?
Partly. Earlier in 2024, the threads started an experiment to allow users to share their Fediverse posts. Thus, if users activate the sharing of Fediverse, people in other compatible activity networks, such as Mastodon, can follow and see their positions. Threads also allow users to Fediverse to like Threads positions.
In 2024, the Meta Extended Fediverse Support by adding a way for yarn users to see answers from Fediverse users to their positions, support for publications created through API Threads to distribute them to the Fediverse and also to check who follows them by other servers.
In December 2024, the company began to allow yarn users to follow profiles from other Fediverse servers.
What are some possibilities that are currently missing from yarn?
- Complete Fediverse Completion
- Post Post (soon)
- Direct messages
- Lists support
- Support for third -party customers
What are the yarn data collection practices?
Because you are using an Instagram account to log in on topics, Meta says that “is part of your Instagram account.” Users already have Raised questions about the application data collectionGiven the privacy label mentioned in the App Store.
Answering questions about the app’s privacy labels on the App Store, Meta’s Deputy Protection Officer Rob Sherman said last year that these labels are similar to other applications of the company.
“Tags are similar to our other applications, including Instagram, as our social applications receive any information (including data categories listed in the App Store) you share in the app,” he told the app. ” a yarn suspension At that time.
This story was first published on July 6, 2023 and is regularly updated.
