Twitter alternative threadsarrived earlier this week and 10 million in 7 hours It broke a record by reaching the user. Users signed up with great curiosity. However, users who tried to delete their accounts encountered a snag. They found that not only could their Threads accounts be deleted, but they also had to delete their Instagram account. After this incident, Threads took a step back and reported that they would fix the issue.
Threads will solve the account deletion problem!
After the events and the application were subjected to many criticisms on the subject, the President of Instagram Adam Mosseri, MetaHe explained that he is aware of the problem and is working on a workaround. He advised users to deactivate their accounts for now. In the future, the Instagram account and Threads account will be deleted separately.
Threads allows users to send text-based messages, videos, short GIFs and embed Instagram posts in Threads. Disabling the account will hide the profile and all posted content, and users can also decide to remain private. Adam Mosseri said that Threads is powered by Instagram, so users only use one account.
A more powerful search tab, hashtag system that is the biggest shortcoming of Twitter, editing tools for attachments are planned to be introduced soon. Also, Threads is not GDPR compliant for now. So people in European Union cannot use this app without VPN. However, this solution method can also endanger users’ data. Therefore, it is considered that this problem will be solved in the future.
As annoying as they are, these are problems that can be fixed in the future. Meta has clearly come as a competitor to Twitter and has so far garnered a lot of likes. The number of users of the application, which reached 10 million users in 7 hours, is increasing. Perhaps the biggest reason for this is that you can easily open an account on Instagram. So much so that even the profile picture and bio can be copied from Instagram.
So what do you think about this news? Did you install the application? You can share your thoughts with us in the comments section.