Meta Official Announces Deletion of Threads Accounts

The popularity of Instagram’s Threads has skyrocketed. Meta Platforms took advantage of the changes happening at X and introduced its own microblogging platform, which quickly gained worldwide attention. It became the fastest platform to reach 100 million users, achieving this milestone in just 5 days. Despite users enjoying this new social media platform, there has been a persistent problem – the inability to delete Threads accounts without losing their Instagram accounts. To address this issue, Meta has pledged to introduce a solution in December, with the intention of retaining users on the Threads app.

Threads account deletion feature

According to a report by Tech Crunch, Meta’s Chief Privacy Officer Michel Protti stated that they are working on bringing the Threads account deletion feature and it will be available to users by December. Due to the tied relationship between Threads and Instagram accounts, users complained about being unable to delete the Threads account, which Protti acknowledged, stating that it is a challenging process, but they have managed to find a solution. He said: “Technically, it was extremely challenging to allow the removal of a separate Threads account without also removing your entire Instagram account from the gate. Therefore, we took special care to ensure that the user can still exercise their removal rights by deactivating the account to hide all content, set it to private, or delete individual threads.”

For now, users who want to delete their Threads account can only set their account to private as a temporary solution. However, this issue will be resolved soon as the company will bring the feature in December.

The new Meta app became very popular when it was released in July, and in a few days it gathered 100 million users. However, the craze didn’t last longer, as the number of active users of the application dropped significantly after the first rise. To attract users, Threads introduced several features, but it didn’t seem to work. While they’re working on the delete feature, Meta also wants users to stay in the app.

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