Threads is giving customers extra management over who can quote their posts (as in, reposting with commentary). Should you don’t need simply anybody to have the ability to quote your posts, you now have the choice to permit solely folks you comply with to take action. Or, you may make it so nobody can quote your posts in any respect. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri introduced the replace this weekend, saying he hopes it’ll “assist preserve Threads a extra optimistic place.” The platform examined the characteristic amongst a bunch of Threads customers final month, however it’s now rolling out to everybody.
Threads, which now has over 150 million month-to-month customers, has been slowly including extra options to enhance security and the general consumer expertise, borrowing some instruments from Instagram. Final month, it launched the Hidden Phrases characteristic, so customers can designate sure phrases that they need to be filtered out of their feeds. Threads additionally lately began testing choices for archiving posts, both manually or mechanically after a selected expiration date.