{"id":32561,"date":"2023-08-18T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T07:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/18\/threads-apps-latest-update-gives-more-prominence-to-reposts-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T07:47:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T07:47:22","slug":"threads-apps-latest-update-gives-more-prominence-to-reposts-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/18\/threads-apps-latest-update-gives-more-prominence-to-reposts-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads app&#8217;s latest update gives more prominence to reposts | TechCrunch"},"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 haven\u2019t launched a web version yet, but the app has shipped a new update to give more prominence to reposts on the social network.<\/p>\n<p>Meta has changed two things regarding reposts on the app. First, there is now a dedicated \u201cReposts\u201d tab on the profile page, so people can quickly scan through all reposts by a user. Earlier this month, the company rolled <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/06\/threads-app-is-rolling-out-to-a-way-to-see-your-liked-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">out a new option on the settings page to let users look at their own liked posts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2584664\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2584664\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2584664\" src=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg?w=680\" alt=\"Zuck has not reposted anything yet\" width=\"680\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg 832w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg?resize=150,121 150w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg?resize=300,242 300w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg?resize=768,618 768w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg?resize=680,548 680w, https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-18-at-12.47.45-PM.jpg?resize=50,40 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2584664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zuck has not reposted anything yet<strong> Image Credits:<\/strong> Threads<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Second, users can now see reposts in the reverse-chronological \u201cFollowing\u201d feed as well. Prior to the latest update, you could see other users\u2019 reposts only in the algorithmic \u201cFor You\u201d feed. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said this change was \u201cbased on your feedback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, this update is not as drastic as when <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2009\/11\/10\/hate-it-or-love-it-twitters-new-retweet-style-rolling-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter launched the Retweet function in 2009<\/a>. But with this change, people will probably see more posts on the \u201cFollowing\u201d feed.<\/p>\n<p>These are part of hooks developed by the Threads team to increase engagement, which <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/09\/aiming-to-boost-retention-threads-now-hooks-into-instagram-dms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has dwindled over time<\/a>. Since its launch last month, the app has introduced features for sharing a Threads post directly to the Instagram feed or <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/09\/aiming-to-boost-retention-threads-now-hooks-into-instagram-dms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sending it through Instagram DMs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it would have been nice to get a web version of Threads in the week when <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/15\/x-formerly-twitter-makes-x-pro-formerly-tweetdeck-a-subscriber-only-product\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">X (formerly Twitter) made TweetDeck a subscriber-only feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/18\/threads-apps-latest-update-gives-more-prominence-to-reposts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threads haven\u2019t launched a web version yet, but the app has shipped a new update to give more prominence to reposts on the social network. Meta has changed two things regarding reposts on the app. First, there is now a dedicated \u201cReposts\u201d tab on the profile page, so people can quickly scan through all reposts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32561","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\/32561","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=32561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}