Threads

It will be through messaging applications. Today we have to present the umpteenth, which by the way belongs to Facebook and wants to focus on sharing of messages between friends and people closest to you. It's called Threads and Mark Zuckerberg's company is fully immersed in its development.

A development in which concepts are mixed and in which the philosophy and mechanisms of Instagram are very present. Threads wants to function as a companion app for Instagram, allowing users to share more intimate data, such as location, battery life, and, logically, text messages, photos and videos, which will be able to go through the creative filters that we already know from Instagram beforehand.

An app just for best friends

Facebook is currently testing the application, but only internally In fact, Instagram has not opened its mouth to confirm or deny nothing. The little we know is that this application is designed to share things with your closest friends.

Although be careful, it is not the first time that the Facebook factory works on an application with this will: that of the most friends close ones can calmly share what they want to share.

Since the end of 2017, Instagram had been developing Direct, a messaging application with an independent vocation that complemented Instagram, but wanted to work separately. Development ended last May, after testers argued that switching apps every time they wanted to send a private message was a real pain in the ass nuisance

Threads, looking in the mirror on Snapchat

If you thought this was a good idea, you may not have tried Snapchat, which is an app that allows users to connect with their closest circle of friends in an agile way.

Mirror-gazing on Snapchat probably has to do, for Instagram, with reports that users spend more time on Snapchat than on Instagram. In this way, it is not surprising that Facebook goes all out to get a similar application, even if it works independently, to undermine the interest that many still place in it. Snapchat.

However, they won't be the first to try. In 2014, an application called Status appeared that wanted to do the same and another that did the same in 2015.

A constant exchange of messages

There isn't much information, much less official, about the application in question. The Verge has had access to some screenshots of the tool, from which it can be deduced that Threads is a tool designed to promote constant exchange – and automatic, eye – content among Instagram users who can be considered closest.

There will be different options to share instantly and automatically, as long as the user has decided so. And although exact locations will not be shared, it will be possible to indicate that a person is moving or going somewhere.

Status can be updated manually and will appear in the main message feed, enabling status exchanges with just a tap .

As for messaging, it seems that this will be very similar to the one that currently works privately on Instagram. Messages from friends are located in the central part and those who are online will be marked with a green button.

Threads will also be able to see recent stories and direct access to the camera will be included, so they can take photos and send them to closest friends in a quick and direct way.