Sick of Trolls In Your Threads Replies? Use This New Feature

Anyone who's fallen victim to the "Well, actually" reply needs to use this new Threads feature. Meta announced Thursday that it's introducing a number of controls and personalization features. The most important tools include the ability to limit replies and quote-posts to just your followers, and a new option to add up to 10 tagged topics to your bio. That means when you create a new post, you can choose is allowed to reply to it: anyone, just your followers or nobody at all. Which means that it should make it easier to control who is allowed to annoy you online. CEO Mark Zuckerberg boosted the announcements by adding three new topics to his Threads bio: AI, MMA and memes. In a blog post, Meta said that Threads posts that include a topic "generally receive more views" but didn't offer any specific stats or examples. Meta Threads has gotten a lot of product updates in the past few months. Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced adjustments to Threads' algorithm to prioritize accou ... Read full article.