What is threads?
Threads is a spin-off app from Instagram that focuses on conversations rather than visual content.
Provides a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations.
The app resembles the Instagram comment section in its design, but offers the features of Twitter, such as replying and re-sharing posts.
Can create posts with up to 500 characters (more than Twitter’s 280), links, up to 10 photos, and videos up to 5 minutes long.
Instagram users will be able to log in with their existing usernames and follow the same accounts on the new app. New users will have to set up an Instagram account.
Meta’s new offering, however, has raised data privacy concerns.
Threads could collect a wide range of personal information, including health, financial, contacts, browsing and search history, location data, purchases and “sensitive info,” according to its data privacy disclosure on the App Store.
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