Threads Tests Editing, Account Switching and Profile Deletion Options

Amid ongoing unrest at X, many users are actually at the very least dipping a toe into alternative real-time news apps, with Bluesky seeing a surge in sign-ups this week, and Threads still steadily gaining traction, especially amongst area of interest user groups.

It’s still a good distance off X, and its profile sign-ups have tailed off after its record ascension to 100 million members. But it surely does still feel like Threads has something, and that it could still find its area of interest inside the broader social media sphere.

But in an effort to capitalize on any opportunity that it could have, it needs so as to add recent features, and keep those updates coming, in an effort to catch as much as the competition. And the Threads team is working, with a variety of recent functional additions now within the works that’ll likely prompt much more interest within the X alternative app.

First off, Threads is working on post editing, something that X/Twitter refused so as to add for years, then finally rolled out to paying subscribers last October.

And Threads is seemingly taking an identical approach to what X has on this front, with edits potentially to be made available for a certain time period after posting.

As you possibly can see in this instance, pulled from the back-end code of Threads by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, in the present iteration of Thread editing, users would have a 5-minute countdown to implement any edits to their update. X/Twitter initially gave users a 30-minute window for edits, but it surely recently expanded that to an hour, though again, it’s only available to X Premium subscribers.

Time-limited edits could make the method easier to administer inside the Threads database, while also accounting for the doubtless more significant impact of editing short-form content. A part of the priority held by previous Twitter management was that by enabling full tweet editing, at any time, people could significantly alter the meaning of posts after they’d gone viral, which may very well be especially problematic for brief tweets, as even minor updates have the potential to drastically alter their meaning.

Threads is seemingly also taking this concern under consideration, but it surely has promised so as to add Thread editing, and this might still be a serious update inside the Threads experience.

Threads can be rolling out profile switching in-stream, so that you don’t need to sign off of Threads, then out of Instagram, then back into each again, every time you should post from an alternate account.

As you possibly can see in this instance, posted by Ahmed Ghanem, Threads will soon have an “Add profile” choice to link your various Threads profiles within the app. You’d then, at the very least theoretically, have the ability to modify between them, like you possibly can on Instagram, which might be an enormous help for many who are also managing brand accounts.

I mean, post scheduling would even be an enormous addition on this front, but it surely all takes time, and the Threads team is working through the varied requests relatively quickly, considering the quantity of functionality they still have to add.

Finally, Instagram’s also seeking to provide a strategy to delete your Threads profile in isolation out of your IG presence, which had been one among the important thing concerns within the early stages of the brand new app.

As you possibly can see in these screenshots, also shared by Alessandro Paluzzi, Threads will soon include a complete recent section explaining find out how to delete your Threads account, which is able to remove your Threads data out of your IG profile after 30 days when activated.

Because right away, your Threads profile is your Instagram profile as well, they’re not two separate entities. That’s made it much easier for Instagram to on-board recent Threads users, but it surely also means that you may’t delete one without also erasing the opposite, which many users have raised as a priority.

So soon, you’ll have the ability to delete your Threads profile, without also losing your IG data. But you higher be certain, because if you should use your IG handle to enroll to Threads again, you’ll need to wait 4 months (120 days) for it to be reactivated, as per the above description.

These are some key updates for Threads, and while most of those functions are already available in other apps, they do take time to construct, and add into whole recent systems.

Which is why the Threads team remains to be rolling out what many consider to be basic functionalities and options, because they launched the app sooner than they initially had planned, in an effort to gather up cast-offs from Elon Musk’s X. And now, they’re paddling hard to catch up, and seize the chance.

Though as Elon Musk continues to post divisive remarks, and make controversial decisions at X, the window of opportunity for Threads continues to expand, which suggests that it probably does have time to construct in these recent functions, and still maintain regular growth momentum, as more users search for a viable X alternative.

Straight away, Threads is leading that pack, and it should have the ability to grow to be a more invaluable, viable platform because it continues to construct.