As X, formerly known as Twitter continues to spiral down, Threads is actually becoming a better social media platform as more features are added. In addition to the following feed and other additions, users can now edit their posts without paying for the feature.
Edit Away, But Do So Within Five Minutes
Threads is looking up to be more like the old Twitter and more, and it might just be enough for people to switch microblogging sites. Just this Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg was happy to announce that Threads finally has an edit button.
The feature will only be available for a limited amount of time. The five-minute countdown will be displayed to inform the user how much time they have left before the post becomes permanent. It's unclear whether a user can edit more than once, but they likely can.
Other users will see if a post is edited since there will be an icon to indicate that changes on the thread have been made. However, the previous version of the post will not be shown, as opposed to Facebook's edit function where users can view the edit history.
It's a big step for Threads when compared to its main competitor. In all those 16 years, it took Twitter a change in ownership and a rebranding before it added an edit feature, as per Gizmodo. Even as it did, people had to be X Blue subscribers to have access to it.
Even with that achievement, Threads has a long way to go before it becomes the preferred social networking app. The platform's number of users skyrocketed during its first week with over 100 million joining Threads.
However, that has since declined significantly showing that people only signed up for the hype and the idea of how convenient it is to be connected to Instagram. Not long after, the social media site lost about 80% of its active users, which is obviously a bad turnout.
Still Not Ready for Hard News
With all the progress that Threads managed to attain, it's still far from being ready to take on something as big as hosting news content. They will still be permitted on the social networking site, but Threads will not "amplify" them.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said despite that decision, they are not anti-news. The platform just wants to be careful "not to over-promise and under-deliver." He admitted that doing so would be too risky given the maturity of Threads, as mentioned in Tech Crunch.
It's not really a big surprise that Meta wants to take things slow in the news department when it comes to Threads. Other platforms under the parent company have been facing difficulties with fake news for years now, especially on Facebook.
In addition to that, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also wanted the microblogging platform to become a "more positive, friendly place for discussion," and hard news doesn't exactly fit into positive or light-hearted conversations. If anything, it's more often the opposite.
