A first look at Topics in the browser gives you an early idea of ​​what to expect from the full app. As previously known, it will be released for iOS first. The launch date for Android is currently unknown, but the company may have time to do so as well.

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg welcomed users by creating a page about the new service. Many other brands and celebrities have also gained early access, including Netflix, Instagram and its CEO Adam Mosseri, Shakira, Gordon Ramsay, various American bloggers, and more.

Mark Zuckerberg invited users to Topics / Screenshot of Channel 24

When you went to Threads you could see:

• The interface looks quite advanced and modern, reminiscent of Instagram. The company even paid attention to small elements like the swirls under the profile photo in the feed, which lead to small avatars of other users who liked or commented on the post.
• The functionality to embed posts from other sites using code is already available. The Verge published Zuckerberg’s piece in his article.
• The service has all the main functions of social networks similar to Twitter: liking, commenting, reposting, sending to private messages.
• Clicking on the logo of the social network changes the theme from day to night and vice versa.
• Thread already translated into ukrainian.
• The profile may contain an embedded link to your Instagram.
• Similar to Twitter, reply posts appear in two different sections. There is no section to view media and preferences.

Mark Zuckerberg profile in dark theme / NeoWin screenshot

Zuckerberg’s post and answers / Screenshot 9to5mac

All this is very interesting given the fact that another Twitter competitor, the Bluesky service, has been in development much longer, but still has minimal features and an outdated interface that was clearly made as a temporary “plug”. Also, it’s still available by invitation only. This could work in Threads’ favor by turning users away from Twitter.

For unregistered viewers in the threads, only the main profile pages and extended replies to posts were opened while accounts existed. But when you try to open something else, a galaxy-like dynamic animation of the social network logo loads, and a timer that counts down the time until Threads launches for everyone, and a QR code to download the app.

Interestingly, a service that promises to make it decentralized, such as Mastodon and Bluesky, Does not support fediverse technology. It will appear in the future.

Now the service has only a few thousand users.