Threads has simply added a brand new function that individuals have been crying out for ever since Meta launched its rival app to X (previously Twitter) earlier this month.
The brand new Following tab for Threads’ iOS and Android apps provides a chronological feed of posts solely from individuals who you’re following, so that you’ll not must waste time trawling by seemingly random posts from people you’re not significantly excited about.
Clearly in listening mode because it seeks to tug throughout as many customers as attainable from X, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, responding on Threads to a consumer asking for the Following function, stated: “Ask and also you shall obtain.”
Find out how to use Threads’ Following function
For now at the least, Threads nonetheless opens with the unique For You feed that includes a hodgepodge of posts.
You may entry the Following feed by deciding on the house icon on the backside of the show, or the Threads brand on the high.
If the Following tab doesn’t present up, ensure you have the newest model of Threads in your gadget. If it’s nonetheless not showing, then be affected person, it’ll be coming very quickly (Zuckerberg stated Threads has “began” rolling out the function).
Opening on the algorithmic For You tab is one thing the outdated Twitter app used to do as a manner of making an attempt to extend engagement on the platform, however widespread consumer annoyance at having to hit the Following tab each time you opened the app persuaded Twitter to set it in order that the identical feed opens because the one you had been final on. Maybe Threads will take the identical route earlier than too lengthy.
For people coming from X, the chronological feed is a must have if Threads is ever to behave as a alternative. X customers sad with the way in which Elon Musk has been overhauling the app since he acquired the enterprise in October have been on the lookout for an alternate social media app. Mastodon and Bluesky have but to take off in a giant manner, whereas Threads, due to a big extent to its shut integration with Instagram, obtained an enormous quantity of curiosity at launch. But it surely’s nonetheless too early to say if it’s going to final.
Threads was fairly naked bones when it launched in early July, however the Instagram builders who constructed the app have been pushing out a lot of updates to include new options, with Tuesday’s addition positive to be warmly welcomed.
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