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Threads Gaining Support for Analytics, Scheduling Posts, Multiple Drafts and More

Threads, Meta's social network that's meant to rival X, today announced several new features that are available or coming soon. For creators, Threads is launching analytics for performance measurement.

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Users can see view numbers, replies, reposts, and quotes, along with follower count over time and follower demographics like age, location, and gender.

Threads on the web is gaining support for writing and saving multiple drafts of posts before sharing them with an audience. Up to 100 ideas can be saved in the new Drafts section. To go along with drafts, Threads plans to add scheduling, so Threads can be created and scheduled to go up at a later date and time. Multiple posts can be scheduled per day, multiple days in advance.

While these features are available only on the web at the current time, Threads plans to bring them to the mobile versions of the app in the future. Insights and multiple drafts are rolling out now, and scheduling posts will be coming soon.

It has now been just over a year since Threads launched, and it has over 28 million daily active users. Meta has been regularly adding new features to the social network to put it on par with X (formerly Twitter).

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Top Rated Comments

23 months ago
lol…I still remember when threads was announced and supposed to be a twitter killer…

Where did that end up?
Score: 25 Votes (Like | Disagree)
mac-imperator Avatar
23 months ago
whats this threads app?
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
richpjr Avatar
23 months ago

Threads is exploding right now.. so many new users.. everyone fed up with how bad X has become.. lots of celebrities if that’s what you want? Simon pegg just did a ask me anything session today..
Threads is collecting the following info on users:

Third-Party Advertising:


* Purchases (Purchase History)
* Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
* Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
* Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
* Contacts
* User Content (Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content)
* Search History
* Browsing History
* Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
* Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
* Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
* Other Data

Developer's Advertising or Marketing:


* Purchases (Purchase History)
* Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
* Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
* Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
* Contacts
* User Content ( Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content)
* Search History
* Browsing History
* Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
* Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
* Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
* Other Data

Analytics:


* Health & Fitness (Health, Fitness)
* Purchases (Purchase History, Financial Info, Payment Info, Other Financial Info)
* Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
* Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
* Contacts
* User Content (Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
* Search History
* Browsing History
* Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
* Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
* Sensitive Info
* Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
* Other Data

Product Personalization:


* Purchases (Purchase History)
* Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
* Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
* Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
* Contacts
* User Content (Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content)
* Search History
* Browsing History
* Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
* Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
* Sensitive Info
* Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
* Other Data

App Functionality:


* Health & Fitness (Health, Fitness)
* Purchases (Purchase History)
* Financial Info (Payment Info, Credit Info, Other Financial Info)
* Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
* Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
* Contacts
* User Content (Emails or Text Messages, Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
* Search History
* Browsing History
* Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
* Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
* Sensitive Info
* Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
* Other Data

Other Purposes:


* Purchases (Purchase History)
* Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
* Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
* Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
* Contacts
* User Content (Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
* Search History
* Browsing History
* Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
* Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
* Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
* Other Data
Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)
23 months ago

Where did that end up?
28m DAUs, 200m MAUs. Pretty good numbers for a year old social network.

And has left Twitter so desperate for money they are having to sue brands for not advertising.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
23 months ago

whats this threads app?
a social network for AI-based bots that do nothing but engagement posting and engaging in other AI bots posts.
dead internet theory in practice
Score: 10 Votes (Like | Disagree)
23 months ago

The allegedly freestanding legitimate social network that doesn’t do news and yet not a single celebrity with a massive following on real platforms will post on it…

But I guess if they burned that much money on their Second Life knock-off, they can keep this going infinitely.

Maybe they can get thirsty wannabe influencers to pay to promote their “viral“ stories they steal from Tiktok and Reddit.

As much as “it all happens on X” is a hilarious Linda Yaccarino meme for the ages…nothing happens on Threads
Threads is a lot more interesting to me because of all the smaller tech personalities that left Twitter the same time I did. Twitter became super toxic IMO, I don't really see any of that on threads on my feed. It has a lot of daily and monthly active users now, it's just a different platform than Twitter (all in a good way for how I use it).
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)