Threads now has a feature to 'display only posts from users you follow'

A function was added to `` Threads '' released by Meta in July 2023 as a rival to SNS X, which was once called Twitter, to display only the posts of users who are following.

“Threads” is a text-based SNS released in early July 2023.

If you have an Instagram account, you can start immediately, and accounts were opened at an amazing rate immediately after the release, exceeding 30 million people in just one day.

In addition, a large update was made two weeks after the release, and it became possible to translate the content of the post.

However, since the feed, which is the timeline in X, was designed to display recommended posts from Threads, users wanted to see the posts of the users they followed.

Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to a user's post saying '

You can see how the feed is displayed by watching the video posted by the Threads official account.

Regarding Threads, data analysis company SimilarWeb reports that the peak was immediately after release, and the number of active users decreased by about half in the next week. On the other hand, data.ai, which conducts a similar data survey, reports that the combined iOS and Android versions have reached one-fifth of X users, and this change will make usability closer to X. So, we may end up competing against X.

Weekly active users of `` Threads '' attracting attention as a Twitter alternative application have already reached one-fifth of Twitter - GIGAZINE