Threads certainly made an entrance this week, with over 10 million new accounts reportedly being opened on Meta’s Twitter rival within seven hours of its launch. Unfortunately, the app is looking a little thin right now. Threads is missing numerous features which microbloggers have come to expect, including everything from trending topics, to emoji, to the ability to delete your profile without also deep-sixing your Instagram account.
One of Threads’ most significant exclusions is a feed that only shows you accounts you follow, with users currently condemned to scrolling through a stream of algorithmically-chosen posts by strangers. Fortunately, that may soon be rectified.
Twitter competitor Threads won’t let you delete your account unless you also delete Instagram
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri has posted (threaded?) that a feed for users’ followed accounts is “on the list”(opens in a new tab) of features the company is looking into adding to Threads. The post came as a response to YouTuber Marques Brownlee aka MKBHD, who requested “a home feed just for people you follow.”(opens in a new tab)
“[T]here are tons of basics that are missing: search, hashtags, a following feed, graph syncing, fedeverse support, messaging maybe…” posted Mosseri.(opens in a new tab) “We’re on it. The (amazing) team is cranking away. But full disclosure, it’ll take time.”
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Exactly how much time that will be isn’t clear. But in the meantime, you can manually adjust your settings one by one so that Threads will only show you posts from people you follow. It may be a bit annoying, but at least it’s some sort of solution.
You can further curate your Threads experience by hiding replies that use specific words, or pause your push notifications until the influx of new followers subsides. But it looks like it might be a while before Threads gets the full functionality that Twitter users have grown accustomed to.
