• Meta’s new Threads app is closely linked to Instagram, so much so that you can’t delete your Threads profile without deleting your Instagram account.

  • This is mentioned clearly in Meta’s supplemental privacy policy, which many new Threads users failed to read in full.

  • @[email protected]
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    282 years ago

    Wait, does it mean if you already have an Instagram account you also have a threads profile already?

    • Yatoo
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      42 years ago

      Yeah aside from instagram login you don’t have to do anything for sign up

    • Itty53
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      332 years ago

      Yup. Remember this when they tout how threads “already has millions of users”. They’re all zombie accounts.

      • Jo
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        122 years ago

        That’s not true. Instagram has 1.6bn users and all can use their Instagram logins to sign in to Threads. The roughly 1% who have signed up already have chosen to activate Threads, it’s not done automatically.

      • Rhodin
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        42 years ago

        I wonder if investors and advertisers will also realize this.

        • Itty53
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          12 years ago

          I mean it’s pretty obvious, but then investors are technological illiterates. Companies still use user counts to measure their livelihood for investors, that tells you it works. It’s retarded. It’s fucking dumb money. But these types never stop long enough to learn, it’s how they get where they’re at.

        • Jo
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          22 years ago

          They probably will realise that 10 million is less than 1% of 1.6bn and that they can safely ignore people making shit up.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 years ago

      Threads is basically a new feature of Instagram, they don’t even talk about it as something that is distinct from it.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Technically Meta already had everything ready for a Twitter functionality. Doesn’t make sense to copy it. Just put together a little differently.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 years ago

      I don’t think so, I think they are using OAuth 2.0 to create a threads account based on Instagram credentials.