Threads wants you to delete your old messages

Twitter users, now Elon Musk’s property and problem, have long been asking for the ability to archive posts on the platform.

The Meta social network created by and to dethrone Twitter as the preferred text social network by citizens (it wasn’t enough to have Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp) is testing a feature ideal for politicians and other people who want to hide their past.

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Threads is testing the option to automatically hide your old posts. Instagram’s head, Adam Mosseri, states that the feature is currently only available to a “small number” of users, but it will allow you to choose between manually archiving individual posts or automatically archiving them after a certain time.

You can see an example of how this function would look in Mosseri’s post on Threads below.

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How will the new option to archive old posts in Threads work

Users with access to the test should be able to manually archive their content by clicking on the three dots in the upper right corner of a post and selecting “Archive now”. This will give users the option to hide certain posts on their profiles, similar to the archive option on Instagram.

Mosseri says that users can make their posts public again at any time. He also adds that this feature will not become the default in Threads.

“We conducted a survey… and the overwhelming response was not to do it by default, so we are going to test it as an option,” explained Mosseri.

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Twitter users, now owned and troubled by Elon Musk, have long been asking for the ability to archive posts on the platform, and many have turned to third-party services to hide their content. At least Threads could incorporate an archiving option, which would mean that Threads listens to its users.

Author: Chema Carvajal Sarabia

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