Threads provides a bookmarking function for saving favourite posts

Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is shaping as much as look extra like its competitor X with the current launches of trending topics, an in-app camera, drafts, and as of at the moment, a bookmarking feature for saving posts for later reference extra privately than utilizing a public “like” (the guts icon.)

Bookmarking has been a preferred function for former X customers and heavy information customers, because it permits you to curate a set of hyperlinks and posts you might must refer again to for any motive — maybe due to a protracted article you plan to learn later, or a big piece of data you need to recall. On X, paid subscribers may even set up their bookmarks into numerous folders for simpler entry.

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Whereas the bookmarking icon is inside simple attain on X on the backside of the publish, the brand new function on Threads is a little more hidden. As an alternative of having the ability to save a publish from the app’s foremost timeline, you’ll should faucet on the three-dot menu to entry the “Save” choice.

To return to your bookmarks at a later time, you’ll want to move into the app’s Settings display.

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After saying the information in regards to the new addition through Threads (after all!), a number of customers complained within the feedback that they don’t but have entry to this function and even the not too long ago introduced traits. That’s as a result of Instagram is rolling out new Threads options in phases over time, to not the entire Threads consumer base without delay. That is par for the course for Threads, not solely as a result of the mission has fewer engineering assets, in contrast with the remainder of Meta, however as a result of Threads remains to be a large app by itself, with some 130 million monthly active users. 

Bookmarks aren’t the one new function being noticed by Threads customers. Another Threads user noticed they’ve now begun to obtain notifications from Threads and Fb of their Instagram notifications. In one other effort to develop its app, Threads additionally started testing a cross-posting function from Fb to Threads, the corporate confirmed last week.