Staying usually in controversies, Twitter, controlled by Elon Musk, has always been witnessed facing varied issues, be it business relevant to technical since its acquisition.
As always, being in a competitive spirit, Meta, leveraging Instagram’s fame, has hit a rival onto our screens to let every community share even short-form content. It’s a new discussion landscape, Threads, where distinctive communities talk about almost every topic, from their choices to what’s trending today and will crop up tomorrow. You can follow your interests, connect with people who share your interests, and with your favorite content creators. Besides, you can build your loyal fan following, sharing your opinions, ideas, and creativity worldwide.
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Many are found saying Threads, and Twitter holds a few similarities and simultaneously some dissimilarities. But what’s the fact?
In this blog, we will compare both social media platforms, the features of each, and which one holds more positive points and more.
Let’s dive in.
Threads vs. Twitter – a Battle in A Hunt for The Best
| Parameters | Threads | |
|---|---|---|
| Verification | Verify and confirm Instagram accounts | Accounts must be 90 days old for verification |
| Cost | Free | Approx $8/month or $84/year |
| Content | Can only search accounts | Showcases varied feeds (For You, Following, etc.) |
| Multimedia Content | Can post website links, videos, GIFs, and images | Limited to four items per tweet |
| Messaging | No way to tag Thread users; only allow tagging | Allows communication with any user, sending various types of messages |
| Text Posts | Share short and long-form content with a 500-character limit | Restricts to 280 characters, only short-form content |
| Account Management | Can deactivate your account easily, but deleting requires deleting your Instagram account | Allows deleting account anytime |
1. Verification
Threads
While scrolling through Threads, you will see blue-colored checkmarks adjacent to some account handles. These marks indicate the users are verified, and the confirmation comes from Instagram. Instagram-verified users will automatically get verified on Threads.
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Note: Check Instagram Guidelines for verification qualification.
This social media site appears to have some complications regarding its verification system. Before its acquisition, this platform held similar verification guidelines, like Instagram has today, based on the users’ public standing. Twitter offers its users paid verification badges, like:
- Twitter Blue Subscription – For General Users
- Grey Check – For Government Accounts
- Gold Check – For Well-established News Outlets and Brands
2. Cost
Threads
It’s free to download and use with no hidden, paid features. Currently, Threads doesn’t include any advertisements, but this will no longer be the same as Instagram has also been converted the most into a shopping and ad-heavy platform.
Obviously, Twitter pioneered the space. And there are a lot of good offerings out there for public conversations. But just given everything that was going on, we thought there was an opportunity to build something that was open and something that was good for the community that was already using Instagram.
According to Mosseri
This social media platform reserves some top features for the paid member of Twitter who buys a Twitter Blue Subscription, which costs approx $8/month or $84/year. Also, with time, the features of this subscription plan are constantly changing. But presently, the plan subscribers are allowed to edit the tweet, even post sending, modify the look of the Twitter app icon, and the latest one limit the number of Tweets you can check out in a day.
3. Content
Threads
A single feed pulls mixed content from the accounts you follow and also the trending posts. For now, this platform can search only for the accounts and lags when it comes to finding specific trending topics or news posts.
You can thoroughly curate your post feed by controlling your content. The “For you” feed allows you to view the mixed content from your following accounts and your suggested posts. The “Following” feed shows the content only from the accounts you follow. And you only need to use phrases or words to get relevant and publically-available posts.
4. Multimedia Content
Threads
You can post videos, website links, images, and even GIFs. But, to post GIFs, you first need to save the GIFs to your camera roll on this platform. You can share around 10 items in a single post on this platform.
I think we might be a more compelling platform for creators, particularly for the newer creators who are more and more savvy, if we are a place where you don’t have to feel like you have to trust us forever.
Mosseri says
This social media platform is limited to only four items for every tweet that users can swipe side by side to view.
5. Messaging
Threads
While sharing this platform with someone via text, you will get no in-app option currently to react to a Thread user. But can tag them in the post’s comment section.
Messaging feature on Twitter facilitates you to communicate with any of the users (per their privacy settings) by sending images, texts, GIFs, and voice messages. To share a tweet with other users on the same platform, you can simply message them.
6. Text Posts
After all, these platforms emerge with the same aim to share short messages to let other users view and engage with them. Such messages can be any life updates, jokes, song lyrics, complaints, and anything else that comes to your mind.
It would be great if it gets really, really big, but I’m actually more interested in if it becomes culturally relevant than if it gets hundreds of millions of users.
Mosseri
Threads
The only difference here is the character limit of text posts on threads is 500, which means you can share short and even long forms of content via this platform.
It limits the text posts to only 280, so only short content sharing is allowed on Twitter.
7. Account Management
Threads
To sign in, you need to use your Instagram credentials. At first, the app will take permission from you before importing your Instagram profile details and follow the same users you follow on Instagram. You can deactivate your account whenever you want; that will hide your Threads profile and posts until you reactivate it. But, to delete your Threads account, it also demands to delete your Instagram account.
The complexities with complying with some of the laws coming into effect next year.
according to Mosseri
This social media platform is not dependent on another platform. So, you can sign up freely using the credentials of your choice. Even you can delete your account anytime, following the steps offered.
Threads & Twitter – Identical Parameters
Both social media platforms hold identical parameters when it comes to engagement. Let’s dig deeper:
- Button
- Repost Function
- Quote Function
- Comment Tool
- Share Options
On expanding any of these, both unwrap and showcase the comments. You can reply directly to the original message or another comment as you wish.
On the Threads app, the Activity tab reveals your followers, replies, tags, and the users who liked your posts. Besides, your profile page will show your replies also.
On your Twitter profile page, you get a similar notifications tab and
the Likes tab that lets you view all your likes.
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Challenges of Threads – The Team is Working On-It
- You view the Threads even from the accounts you don’t follow.
- Still working on the web version; right now, you can only read Threads on the website and can’t report, comment or post a new one on the web.
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- You need to delete your Instagram account to delete your Thread profile. (Permit deactivating Threads profile anytime)
- The search functions can’t search the posts. ( Allow only to find the users’ accounts)
I think it’d be a mistake to underestimate both Twitter and Elon,” says Mosseri. “Twitter has got a lot of history; it has an incredibly strong and vibrant community on it. The network effects are incredibly strong.
- European countries are still waiting to enjoy the Threads’ experience.
- Right now, there’s no monetization source.
- No GIF support or direct messaging option.
Now, post the launch of a competitive platform, the time is to sit back and wait for Twitter; it may experience a fall or emerge with a counterattack.
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