Are you a part of the new Instagram app called Threads? If not, you may be missing out on the next big form of social media.
This new Meta platform is a lot like the app Twitter, using text-based conversation. You are able to upload any text, pictures or even videos to your grid. Threads makes it easy to directly link your Instagram account to your Threads account. You can follow the same people on both platforms, while also sharing posts between the two apps.
The main purpose of this app is to create real time public conversations, and ultimately creating a “thread.” You are able to reply to other threads that people have started, create and start your own thread, reposting threads, and even just liking threads.
Instagram released this new app on July 5th, 2023. They enticed people to download this new platform by creating a badge for your Instagram profile that shows when you joined the new app. It shows this by putting what number person you were to download the Threads app. This badge also allows other people that view your Instagram profile to directly link to you on Threads.
Threads and Twitter are now competing head to head to see who can be more successful. Some say that Threads has the one up because of the massive platform they already have from Instagram, while calling it the “Twitter Killer.” But some say that Twitter can never be replaced, and Twitter offers some features that Threads has yet to catch up with.