Meta’s Twitter competitor Threads launched on Thursday, with the new microblogging platform already having more than 50 million registered users, just over a day after being launched by Facebook’s parent company. You can log into Threads using your Instagram credentials, and the app will alert you every time one of your Instagram contacts follows you. Additionally, you’ll receive alerts when your posts on Threads receive likes, replies, retweets, and mentions. These constant notifications can be annoying, but there are several ways to manage them to ensure a better experience with new apps.
Meta’s new Twitter competitor uses Instagram’s account system, and you can keep your username, followers, and verification status on Threads. It can be accessed from the desktop website Threads.net or by downloading the app on iOS and Android smartphones.
Thread notification settings on Android
Currently, the app sends 10 different types of notifications, including likes, replies, mentions, retweets, quotes, first thread, new followers, follow request accepted, account suggestions, and threads joined by pre-followed users.
How to manage threaded notifications on Android
You can follow these steps on Android to remove notifications from threads that are spamming you or are no longer useful:
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Go to your profile page on Threads and click menu button is in the upper right corner.
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tap Pause all or make individual adjustments Topics and replies or followers and followers. You can choose from five options – 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours to silence notifications.
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below Topics and replies You can choose from three options: everyone, people you follow, or turn it off completely.
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below followers and followersyou can turn each notification off or on.
The outlined steps come in handy when you want to use Threads but don’t want to constantly receive constant notifications from your application. Threads currently allows you to post links, photos and videos of up to 500 characters on the app. These can also be cross-posted to your Instagram Stories. Like Instagram, the new app also allows profiles to be set to “private.” The new platform is expected to add new features in the coming days.
