Threads is getting some useful new features

Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is getting some new options “this week,” in keeping with a put up from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The brand new options embrace the power to share a Threads put up to your Instagram DMs, a manner so as to add customized alt textual content to images and movies that you just embrace in posts, and a brand new “point out button” that allows you to “simply point out somebody’s account in your Thread,” Zuckerberg says. (For some purpose, this hyperlink solely works for me on cellular.)

To share a put up through Instagram DMs, faucet the paper airplane-like icon on a put up. So as to add alt textual content, begin a put up, connect images or movies utilizing the paperclip icon, after which faucet the “Alt” button that seems on the picture. I don’t seem to have the point out button — perhaps I’m lacking it! — however you’ll be able to point out one other person whereas drafting a put up by coming into the @ image after which typing any individual’s username or choosing from one of many prompt choices. And I ought to word that my iPhone had not too long ago up to date the Threads app, so when you’re not seeing the brand new options, ensure you’re on the most recent model.

These updates are good — customized alt textual content specifically looks like one that ought to have been within the app at launch — however I’m guessing many are nonetheless ready for greater updates like an internet shopper and improved search. On Friday, Zuckerberg stated these options are coming in “the next few weeks,” so hopefully we don’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer for them. Not less than the app has a following feed, although I nonetheless want it didn’t force you out of it.