{"id":25085,"date":"2023-07-06T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T07:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/06\/meta-will-nuke-your-instagram-account-if-you-delete-threads-profile\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T07:17:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T07:17:19","slug":"meta-will-nuke-your-instagram-account-if-you-delete-threads-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/06\/meta-will-nuke-your-instagram-account-if-you-delete-threads-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper breakout\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Threads, Meta\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/05\/threads-metas-twitter-competitor-is-now-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter rival<\/a>, is attracting users at an unprecedented pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. <span style=\"font-size: 1rem; letter-spacing: -0.1px;\">But the new service, which requires an Instagram account for onboarding, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads account simultaneously terminates the linked Instagram account.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/help.instagram.com\/515230437301944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Supplemental Privacy Policy<\/a>,\u2019 Meta says: \u201cYou may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.\u201d\u00a0Later on in the policy page, Meta explains that a Threads profile is part of the user\u2019s Instagram account.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout embed-oembed embed--twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I deactivated my threads account already but it turns out you can\u2019t delete your threads account *without also deleting your Instagram account* so maybe just don\u2019t sign up!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 emily hughes \u2728 (@emilyhughes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilyhughes\/status\/1676775597735923719?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 6, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>More to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/06\/threads-delete-profile-instagram-meta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threads, Meta\u2019s Twitter rival, is attracting users at an unprecedented pace, amassing 10 million signups in just seven hours, according to co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. But the new service, which requires an Instagram account for onboarding, features an intriguing stipulation: Deleting a Threads account simultaneously terminates the linked Instagram account. In a \u2018Supplemental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}