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== Developments == | == Developments == | ||
November 13 | November 30, 2023: Meta Platforms plans to bring Threads in Europe by the end of December, WSJ cited people familiar with the matter. However, to comply with EU regulations, the company will give users the choice of using the app purely for consumption, without creating profiles. Debra Aho Williamson, an independent tech analyst, estimates that the move could add 40 new monthly users to the app in 2024. According to Sensor Tower, an analytics firm, Threads currently has 73 million monthly global users<ref>https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-threads-europe-launch-98448df5?siteid=yhoof2</ref>. | ||
November 13, 2023: Threads will now allow users to disable automatic sharing of their threads to Facebook and Instagram. Sharing of threads to other apps was widely criticised by users. The new feature has not been officially announced by the Threads team yet<ref>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/threads-now-lets-users-opt-151552020.html</ref>, but a user has seen it<ref>https://www.threads.net/@datadrivenmd/post/CzhTLaXyVKx</ref>. | |||
September 26, 2023: According to Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy officer for products, Meta is planning to launch an account deletion feature for Threads by December. “Technically, it was extremely challenging to allow deletion of a separate Threads account without also deleting your overall Instagram account out of the gate. So we paid particular attention to ensuring the user could still exercise their deletion rights, by deactivating the account to sort of hide all content, setting it to private or deleting individual threads,” he said. Protti also said that they are working on integrating the app with fediverse, a decentralized social network<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/meta-says-separate-account-deletion-for-threads-will-roll-out-by-december/</ref>. | September 26, 2023: According to Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy officer for products, Meta is planning to launch an account deletion feature for Threads by December. “Technically, it was extremely challenging to allow deletion of a separate Threads account without also deleting your overall Instagram account out of the gate. So we paid particular attention to ensuring the user could still exercise their deletion rights, by deactivating the account to sort of hide all content, setting it to private or deleting individual threads,” he said. Protti also said that they are working on integrating the app with fediverse, a decentralized social network<ref>https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/meta-says-separate-account-deletion-for-threads-will-roll-out-by-december/</ref>. | ||