Threads allows users to see liked posts in latest update as interest dwindles

Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads is rolling out extra new options, together with the power for customers to evaluation posts they’ve preferred, because it appears to be like to reverse a major exodus of users because the platform’s high-profile launch in July.

As of this week, Threads customers can evaluation their exercise by clicking into their settings tab and clicking a subsection titled “Your likes.” Meta seems to have examined the characteristic amongst Android customers starting final week earlier than rolling it out to its wider person base.

An identical characteristic is out there on Instagram, which is intently tied to Threads, in addition to Elon Musk’s X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter. On X, person profile pages have a tab titled “likes” which permits each the account proprietor and different customers to evaluation their favourite posts.

Zuckerberg’s workforce has steadily added options to Threads, which has already misplaced greater than half of the 100 million customers who initially signed up for the app for its July 5 debut. Meta has confronted criticism from X proprietor Elon Musk and others who allege Threads is merely a clone of Twitter.

However, Zuckerberg declared in a put up final Saturday that Threads had “an excellent week” and was “on the trajectory I count on to construct a vibrant long-term app.”

Zuckerberg, whose public animosity with Musk has grown to the extent that the duo has scheduled a live-streamed cage match, additionally teased extra upcoming options for Threads – together with a search perform and an internet model of the app.

“Numerous work forward however excited in regards to the workforce’s tempo of transport,” Zuckerberg said.

Final month, Threads added a much-requested chronological newsfeed option for its customers, permitting them to type their feeds by their most up-to-date posts or the unique, algorithmically pushed “For You” feed.”

Threads has steadily misplaced customers regardless of the lukewarm public response to Musk’s choice to rebrand Twitter to X.

Musk has argued the rebrand was essential to precisely replicate X’s transition from a social media web site to an “all the things app” that can have a wider array of options.