It's come as a shock to many that they can't delete their Threads profile without also deleting their Instagram account.

  • 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.

  • Itty53
    33•2 years ago

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

    • Rhodin
      4•2 years ago

      I wonder if investors and advertisers will also realize this.

      • Itty53
        1•2 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
        2•2 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.

    • Jo
      12•2 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.