Five months after its launch in July, Meta\u2019s social network Threads<\/a> is now finally available to people living in the European Union.<\/p>\n In a post<\/a> on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is opening up Threads to more countries in Europe. However, at the time of writing the app wasn\u2019t available on the App Store in some countries.<\/p>\n The Threads.net website has a \u201cUse without a profile\u201d mode, which doesn\u2019t require users to log in through Instagram. While users can look at posts through that mode, they won\u2019t be able to reply to, like, or repost them.<\/p>\n If you are using Threads in the EU without any profile, you will see a single algorithmically populated feed. You can also search for accounts, but seemingly not for posts.<\/p>\n At launch in July, the company restricted access to the new social network in the EU to become compliant with various rules of the bloc. Users weren\u2019t able to download the app to access the social network. And, at that time, Threads didn\u2019t even have a web version to access posts through URLs.<\/p>\n In July, days after Threads\u2019 launch, Meta had to take\u00a0\u201cadditional\u201d steps to prevent EU-based users<\/a> from using a VPN to access the social network.<\/p>\n The official launch comes after the Wall Street Journal\u2019s report last month indicated that Meta planned to launch Threads in the EU in December<\/a>. Last week, Threads placed a countdown timer<\/a> on its home page pointing towards a December 14 launch in the region.<\/p>\n During Meta\u2019s Q3 earnings call, Zuckerberg said that Threads has less than 100 million monthly active users<\/a>. The social network\u2019s launch in the EU will help the company cross that mark.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Zuckerberg announced that Threads had started experimenting with ActivityPub integration<\/a>. This way, the posts originally published on the Meta-owned social network could appear on compatible decentralized networks such as Mastodon.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Screenshot-2023-12-14-at-4.36.52-PM.jpg?w=680\")
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