What Threads is, explained
Meta’s Threads app is billed as a “text-based conversation app” by Meta, which also owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
“Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” the app’s description reads.
The app is linked to Instagram and has components of a Twitter-like microblogging aspect.
Users will be allowed to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five minutes of video and links, as well as pictures.
