The Unforeseen Cost of Deleting Your Threads App Account: Instagrams Sacrifice Revealed

Threads Application Controversy

The Fastest Growing Application in History

The “Threads” application continues to occupy the world and people a few days after its launch, claiming the title of application in fastest growing in history, surpassing the AI ​​chat application “ChatGPT”, launched last January.

A Surprising Pitfall

However, one small pitfall that those eager to download the application don’t seem to notice could change in largely their point of view.

Some users were shocked when they discovered that deleting their new accounts on the app could come with an unexpected cost, because permanently deleting it may require Instagram’s sacrifice with both platforms intertwined.

Instagram: We’re looking into it

Furthermore, this news has unleashed a wave of complaints about the new application’s biggest enemy, the Twitter platform, with one user even describing Threads as a “saw trap”.

Another said, “I’ve already deactivated my Threads account but it turns out you can’t delete your Threads account without also deleting your Instagram account, so maybe you’re not signing up.”

Faced with this confusion, Adam Mosseri, head of ‘Instagram’ went to ‘Threads’ to clarify the situation regarding the account deletion.

Clarification from Instagram

And the official said, for clarification, you can deactivate our “Threads” account, which hides the “Threads” profile and the content of each user, and you can set the profile to private, and post “Threads” can be deleted, all without deleting the “Instagram” account.

He added that “Threads” is supported by “Instagram”, so now it is just one account, but the photography platform is looking for a way to delete the private “Threads” account separately.

Similarity?!

Interestingly, the text chat platform is linked to ‘Instagram’, where users can follow the accounts they are already interested in on the photo sharing application.

But Twitter has also attracted a lot of similarities, based on the use of post similar to Threads that allow users to share their opinions publicly, prompting Elon Musk to threaten Zuckerberg with legal action, accusing Threads of using Twitter’s “trade secrets.”

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