Threads has been stepping up its game and is becoming more of a suitable replacement to X rather than an alternative. One of the few setbacks it's facing is that Meta automatically shares Threads posts on its other platforms, but that has been fixed as well.
Turn It Off via Settings
Threads users were pretty peeved when their posts started showing up on Facebook and Instagram. Social media users usually have different purposes for each platform, and cross-posting may not be the best idea.
Back in October, Meta said that it was "listening to feedback," and it has. The company has now provided users a choice to turn off automatically sharing their posts on other apps. They can do so by heading to their profile pages.
By selecting the menu on the top right of the page, they can head to Privacy, and then "Suggesting posts on other apps," and then toggle the switches off. There are two toggles each for both Instagram and Facebook, as reported by Engadget.
This serves as another win for Threads, especially after the other updates that were brought to the social media app. It already has most of the features people were drawn to when X used to be Twitter, along with other features.
One of its recent additions to the platform are GIFs and polls, which are widely used features on X. GIFs are usually used as replies and polls can be used for trivial choices, or something as serious as asking users whether Elon Musk himself should step down as CEO of X.
There's also the edit button, which has been a long-requested feature in the leading microblogging app. While X already has it, users have to pay for the Premium subscription to access it, whereas Threads is providing it for free.
It even comes with a timer so users will know how long they have before the post becomes permanent. Still, as good as those features are, Threads is still a long way from X's current numbers and might do a lot more to finally beat it as the main microblogging app.
It Has Almost 100 Million Monthly Users
News about the dwindling monthly active users of Threads has been emerging everywhere, but that appears to be untrue as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the Meta app is close to having 100 million monthly active subscribers.
The announcement came just this late October. "We're now getting to the point where we're going to be focusing on growing the community further. From what we can tell, people love it so far," says the CEO according to The Verge.
Threads is the quickest social media app to gain as many users as it did, getting around 10 million users not even a full day after launch. It then released a web app so it could be more accessible to people using other devices.
It has a good chance of becoming the go-to app in this trajectory. Even without doing much, it could still reach its goals as X continues to turn into something its users no longer want to use.
