Wednesday, 11 July 2023, Bengaluru, India
According to a company engineer on Friday, Meta is starting a Threads beta program for Android. Thanks to the beta program, users will have early access to new features and bug fixes, but downloading an unstable build carries a higher risk than with other beta programs.
In just two days since its inception on Wednesday, Threads has racked up 70 million users. A few significant features are absent from the platform, including direct messages, a “Following” feed, a complete web version, a chronological feed, and others. The new beta program may be alluring for customers who want to use new features because the site now has a rather basic structure.
According to the beta program invitation, “certain data on your use of the app will be collected and shared with the developer to help improve the app.” The invitation also mentions that “testing versions may be unstable.“
There is no queue, so anyone with an Android handset can join the program and test out upcoming builds if they sign up for beta access now.
Users of Instagram may log in to Threads using their pre-existing credentials and submit brief updates that can be up to 500 characters extended and contain text, links, images, and videos up to five minutes long. At launch, Threads is accessible on iOS and Android in 100 nations but not in the EU, purportedly because of worries about complying with local data privacy laws.
Even though Threads has only been available for two days, Elon Musk-owned Twitter has already noticed it and threatened legal action against the social media network, accusing Meta of hiring former Twitter employees to build the new platform. Meta has refuted the charges.
[Source of Information : Techcrunch.com]
