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July 28, 2023: According to Reuters, Meta executives plan new retention features for its Threads app after it lost more than half of its users weeks after its launch. Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We're not there yet," CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in a town hall meeting. Zuckerberg said the drop in retention is "normal" and expects it to grow once the company adds desktop version and search functionality. Meta declined to comment on the meeting notes<ref>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-plans-retention-hooks-threads-013409250.html</ref>. | July 28, 2023: According to Reuters, Meta executives plan new retention features for its Threads app after it lost more than half of its users weeks after its launch. "Obviously, if you have more than 100 million people sign up, ideally it would be awesome if all of them or even half of them stuck around. We're not there yet," CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees in a town hall meeting. Zuckerberg said the drop in retention is "normal" and expects it to grow once the company adds desktop version and search functionality. Meta declined to comment on the meeting notes<ref>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-plans-retention-hooks-threads-013409250.html</ref>. | ||
July 25, 2023: Instagram's Threads launched a "following" tab, which allows users to see chronological posts from people they follow instead of the algorithmitically curated content that appears in the "For you" feed. “Ask and you shall receive,” Zuckerberg wrote in Threads post. The "Following" and "For you" taps look similar to the Twitter layout. Threads also added an update that enables users to sort their "Activity" feed by quotes, reposts and follows. The update will also enable users to translate certain posts that appear in a different language as well as see their liked posts in the settings<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/meta-threads-gets-chronological-feed-for-people-you-follow.html</ref>. | July 25, 2023: Instagram's Threads launched a "following" tab, which allows users to see chronological posts from people they follow instead of the algorithmitically curated content that appears in the "For you" feed. “Ask and you shall receive,” Zuckerberg wrote in Threads post. The "Following" and "For you" taps look similar to the Twitter layout. Threads also added an update that enables users to sort their "Activity" feed by quotes, reposts and follows. The update will also enable users to translate certain posts that appear in a different language as well as see their liked posts in the settings<ref>https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/25/meta-threads-gets-chronological-feed-for-people-you-follow.html</ref>. | ||