Threads is rolling out its hashtags with out the hash image globally

Meta’s social community Threads acquired a serious replace Thursday as the corporate began rolling out tags (with out the hash image) on the platform. Customers will have the ability to tag just one matter per publish to keep away from tag spam.

The corporate started testing the tag function in Australia last month, and it’s now rolling out tags worldwide.

In contrast to hashtags, individuals can use a phrase with house in it together with particular characters. Customers can click on on a tag in a publish to open all of the posts within the search view.

You possibly can merely sort the tag within the search bar to have a look at all posts with that tag. Nevertheless, you may see some posts with that phrase not utilizing tags as properly. You possibly can nonetheless create a hashtag if you would like however you’ll have to manually add hashtags to the publish within the composer.

In a publish, Instagram head Adam Mosseri stated that the corporate hopes that this design will result in much less engagement hacking.

Notably, the Threads app doesn’t have a trending part but. However if you faucet on the tag button, you may see some well-liked tags that you could simply add.

You possibly can report a subject in case you discover it insensitive — reporting classes embody spam, bullying or harassment, rip-off or fraud, consuming problems, and hate speech and symbols. Some users said that they obtained warnings about some tags being delicate as a result of they had been reported earlier than. It’s not clear what’s the threshold for when Threads activates the pop-up for delicate tags.

As my colleague Sarah Perez famous in her story last month, there may be additionally an issue with related hashtags being populated. With one tag per publish restrict, your publish won’t attain the viewers trying to find one other tag. As an illustration, proper now there are a number of tags for NBA together with NBAThread, NBA THreads, and NBA.

Final month, Threads expanded its search function to “all languages” in all countries where the app is available. The corporate can also be reportedly set to launch Threads in the EU in compliance with the area’s regulation.

Earlier this month, app analytics agency Apptopia stated that Threads’ daily downloads recovered from a dip in the last few months.