{"id":278233,"date":"2024-04-15T06:52:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=330227"},"modified":"2025-07-01T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T23:43:06","slug":"threads-will-have-private-messages-soon-but-not-in-the-way-you-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/threads-will-have-private-messages-soon-but-not-in-the-way-you-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads will have private messages soon, but not in the way you expect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, Meta<\/strong> started testing private messages on Threads<\/strong>, an option that, surprisingly for a social network, has not existed in the app since its launch last year<\/strong>. Since Friday, some users of Threads<\/a> have started seeing a new option with the text “Message” on user profiles.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Discovered by user Chris Messina<\/a><\/strong>, the new private messaging option in Threads will basically allow you to send messages to users within the app. While this is expected in a feature like this, what’s surprising is that the messages will not be sent through Threads, but through Instagram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For many users, it may come as a shock that Threads relies on Instagram to send private messages, but the company had already warned about it in the past. In November, after a series of hints in the code of Threads<\/strong> that hinted at the possible launch of private messages in the app, the director of Threads, Adam Mosseri<\/strong>, said<\/a> that “Threads app is built on top of the Instagram app, which is probably why you are seeing [the lines of code related to private messages]”, and he concluded by saying: “We are not developing private messages in Threads”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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