Threads Gaining Support for Analytics, Scheduling Posts, Multiple Drafts and More

[MacRumors]

Threads, Meta's social network that's meant to rival X, today announced several new features that are available or coming soon. For creators, Threads is launching analytics for performance measurement.

Users can see view numbers, replies, reposts, and quotes, along with follower count over time and follower demographics like age, location, and gender.

Threads on the web is gaining support for writing and saving multiple drafts of posts before sharing them with an audience. Up to 100 ideas can be saved in the new Drafts section. To go along with drafts, Threads plans to add scheduling, so Threads can be created and scheduled to go up at a later date and time. Multiple posts can be scheduled per day, multiple days in advance.

While these features are available only on the web at the current time, Threads plans to bring them to the mobile versions of the app in the future. Insights and multiple drafts are rolling out now, and scheduling posts will be coming soon.

It has now been just over a year since Threads launched, and it has over 28 million daily active users. Meta has been regularly adding new features to the social network to put it on par with X (formerly Twitter).

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[Paul Shields]

But I still can't resume where I was on my timeline like I can with Twitter...

 

[rishey]

How about a native iPad app?

 

[coffeemilktea]

Scheduling is so enjoyable, it's like being able to write down unhinged thoughts way in advance, and then a week later I see it freshly posted on my own profile and think "wait... what the heck did I write?!"

It's like a present for your future self (and anyone unfortunate enough to get caught up in it)

 

[no_idea]

lol…I still remember when threads was announced and supposed to be a twitter killer…

Where did that end up?

 

[athousandbands]

The allegedly freestanding legitimate social network that doesn’t do news and yet not a single celebrity with a massive following on real platforms will post on it…

But I guess if they burned that much money on their Second Life knock-off, they can keep this going infinitely.

Maybe they can get thirsty wannabe influencers to pay to promote their “viral“ stories they steal from Tiktok and Reddit.

As much as “it all happens on X” is a hilarious Linda Yaccarino meme for the ages…nothing happens on Threads

 

[mac-imperator]

whats this threads app?

 

[threeseed]

Where did that end up?

28m DAUs, 200m MAUs. Pretty good numbers for a year old social network.

And has left Twitter so desperate for money they are having to sue brands for not advertising.

 

[Plutonius]

My opinion only but Threads is a rival to X ?

 

[andrewxgx]

whats this threads app?

a social network for AI-based bots that do nothing but engagement posting and engaging in other AI bots posts.
dead internet theory in practice

 

[MacHeritage]

I still don't know anyone, personally, who uses it. Therefore, waste of my very precious social media time.

 

[DaveOP]

The allegedly freestanding legitimate social network that doesn’t do news and yet not a single celebrity with a massive following on real platforms will post on it…

But I guess if they burned that much money on their Second Life knock-off, they can keep this going infinitely.

Maybe they can get thirsty wannabe influencers to pay to promote their “viral“ stories they steal from Tiktok and Reddit.

As much as “it all happens on X” is a hilarious Linda Yaccarino meme for the ages…nothing happens on Threads

Threads is a lot more interesting to me because of all the smaller tech personalities that left Twitter the same time I did. Twitter became super toxic IMO, I don't really see any of that on threads on my feed. It has a lot of daily and monthly active users now, it's just a different platform than Twitter (all in a good way for how I use it).

 

[athousandbands]

Threads is a lot more interesting to me because of all the smaller tech personalities that left Twitter the same time I did. Twitter became super toxic IMO, I don't really see any of that on threads on my feed. It has a lot of daily and monthly active users now, it's just a different platform than Twitter (all in a good way for how I use it).

Post some examples?

I‘ve had a similar experience with certain non-tech writers decamping to Bluesky and I love it there.

 

[kc9hzn]

I used to use Twitter and stopped using it back in 2016. Honestly, I was an addict who opened my Twitter client of choice for my next hit all too often. Getting off of Twitter was one of the best choices I’ve ever made. Threads seems to offer up all the same addictive elements that Twitter did. If people want to leave Twitter/X, I’d rather see them go sober than just trade their addiction to a new service. (It would be better for the country, too, as it’s obvious that every newsroom in the US is hopelessly addicted to Twitter or one of its various microblogging competitors. So it still impacts me, kinda like the social media equivalent of second-hand smoke.)

 

[DaveOP]

Post some examples?

I‘ve had a similar experience with certain non-tech writers decamping to Bluesky and I love it there.

All the ATP guys, Mike Hurley, Gruber etc are all pretty active on Threads/Mastodon. Now that it's federated it's hard to tell the difference. I don't use social media like most probably, I just want a little tech news and a little local news from where I live, and I don't want any political or social nonsense.

 

[athousandbands]

All the ATP guys, Mike Hurley, Gruber etc are all pretty active on Threads/Mastodon. Now that it's federated it's hard to tell the difference. I don't use social media like most probably, I just want a little tech news and a little local news from where I live, and I don't want any political or social nonsense.

Yeah see I was gonna say I moved with all them to Mastodon before Threads was an idea in Zuckerberg’s colonial island compound.

So my original question, if it’s indistinguishable from Mastodon and only old people use it, what is the point? Facebook badly needs to be gaining new young users.

 

[alexandr]

I wish I never activated it in instagram, now it keeps sending me notifications.

 

[DaveOP]

Yeah see I was gonna say I moved with all them to Mastodon before Threads was an idea in Zuckerberg’s colonial island compound.

So my original question, if it’s indistinguishable from Mastodon and only old people use it, what is the point? Facebook badly needs to be gaining new young users.

I wouldnt say it's indistinguishable from Mastodon. If I use the for you section, I get a TON of sports news, political stuff, commentary etc from all sorts of names I recognize as famous people or influencers. Threads has the one thing mastodon doesn't, about 20 million daily users. It knows roughly where I live so I get local weather, restaurants, teams, etc and none of that was on Mastodon. The ability to swipe posts you don't like away and alter the algorithm helps a lot.

 

[athousandbands]

I wouldnt say it's indistinguishable from Mastodon. If I use the for you section, I get a TON of sports news, political stuff, commentary etc from all sorts of names I recognize as famous people or influencers. Threads has the one thing mastodon doesn't, about 20 million daily users. It knows roughly where I live so I get local weather, restaurants, teams, etc and none of that was on Mastodon. The ability to swipe posts you don't like away and alter the algorithm helps a lot.

Can you share some famous people that are on Threads not Mastodon? I’d just like to see what it looks like

 

[uacd]

Why Apple still doesn’t have tumbleweed emoji, cause that might be the best way to describe activity on Threads

 

[tadunne]

Threads is exploding right now.. so many new users.. everyone fed up with how bad X has become.. lots of celebrities if that’s what you want? Simon pegg just did a ask me anything session today..

 

[mansplains]

28m DAUs, 200m MAUs. Pretty good numbers for a year old social network.

And has left Twitter so desperate for money they are having to sue brands for not advertising.

X didn’t sue the brands for not advertising, but for their alleged collusion in organizing an advertising boycott. This is anticompetitive behavior, and would violate antitrust law. I wouldn't characterize this as desperation, rather operating in X's best interest. I'm sure there's some ideological slant in there somewhere.

 

[richpjr]

Threads is exploding right now.. so many new users.. everyone fed up with how bad X has become.. lots of celebrities if that’s what you want? Simon pegg just did a ask me anything session today..

Threads is collecting the following info on users:

Third-Party Advertising:

• Purchases (Purchase History)
• Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
• Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
• Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
• Contacts
• User Content (Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content)
• Search History
• Browsing History
• Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
• Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
• Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
• Other Data

Developer's Advertising or Marketing:

• Purchases (Purchase History)
• Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
• Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
• Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
• Contacts
• User Content ( Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content)
• Search History
• Browsing History
• Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
• Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
• Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
• Other Data

Analytics:

• Health & Fitness (Health, Fitness)
• Purchases (Purchase History, Financial Info, Payment Info, Other Financial Info)
• Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
• Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
• Contacts
• User Content (Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
• Search History
• Browsing History
• Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
• Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
• Sensitive Info
• Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
• Other Data

Product Personalization:

• Purchases (Purchase History)
• Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
• Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
• Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
• Contacts
• User Content (Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Other User Content)
• Search History
• Browsing History
• Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
• Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
• Sensitive Info
• Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
• Other Data

App Functionality:

• Health & Fitness (Health, Fitness)
• Purchases (Purchase History)
• Financial Info (Payment Info, Credit Info, Other Financial Info)
• Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
• Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
• Contacts
• User Content (Emails or Text Messages, Photos or Videos, Audio Data, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
• Search History
• Browsing History
• Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
• Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
• Sensitive Info
• Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
• Other Data

Other Purposes:

• Purchases (Purchase History)
• Financial Info (Other Financial Info)
• Location (Precise Location, Coarse Location)
• Contact Info (Physical Address, Email Address, Name, Phone Number, Other User Contact Info)
• Contacts
• User Content (Photos or Videos, Gameplay Content, Customer Support, Other User Content)
• Search History
• Browsing History
• Identifiers (User ID, Device ID)
• Usage Data (Product Interaction, Advertising Data, Other Usage Data)
• Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data)
• Other Data

 

[athousandbands]

Threads is exploding right now.. so many new users.. everyone fed up with how bad X has become.. lots of celebrities if that’s what you want? Simon pegg just did a ask me anything session today..

Simon Pegg has a quarter million followers, is old as dirt, and this was his first Threads post since fall 2023. I think this, along with Taylor Swift’s sudden appearance and disappearance on the platform, is pretty telling.

 

[TheMacDaddy1]

IMHO you are crazy to use either.