Meta’s Threads just got an update that users have been begging for

Meta‘s new text-based social media app Threads launched a extremely requested new function Tuesday: a “Following” tab.

The new tab permits customers to see chronological posts from individuals they observe as a substitute of the much less cohesive, algorithmically curated content material that seems within the “For you” feed. Many customers have been asking Meta executives equivalent to CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri for the function since Threads first launched earlier this month.

“Ask and you shall receive,” Zuckerberg wrote in a publish Tuesday.

Meta stated Tuesday that the Threads replace will even permit customers to type their “Activity” feed by follows, quotes and reposts, permit individuals to see their appreciated posts of their settings and translate sure posts that seem in a special language.

Many customers had been fast to level out that the “For you” and “Following” tabs look much like the present format on Twitter, which is being rebranded to “X” as a part of the newest change to the platform since Elon Musk acquired it late final 12 months.

But the comparisons don’t cease there. Threads has a strikingly related feel and look to Twitter, as a lot of Twitter’s core icons and options equivalent to character limits have been replicated on the platform. Threads has been touted by Meta executives equivalent to Mosseri as a extra optimistic “public square” for communities “that never really embraced Twitter.”

Threads first launched on July 5 whereas a sequence of outages and controversial fee restrict insurance policies had been affecting Twitter customers. The platform shortly climbed to 100 million customers, although engagement on the app has since tapered.

Meta stated Tuesday that it’s working to ship new options to Threads as shortly as doable.