Zuckerberg: Threads Will Soon Launch Desktop Version

The Verge reports:

If you go to Threads.net to access Meta’s popular Twitter clone, you’ll still find a spinning placeholder galaxy — but that should change in the next few weeks, according to a new tweet from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “Search and web coming in the next few weeks,” he tweets, saying he’s “excited about the team’s pace of shipping.”

It was just last week that Threads rolled out its Following feed, so you no longer need to depend entirely on the company’s algorithms to prioritize tweets from the people you actually want to read.

Of the remaining features, a desktop web version has clearly been high on the list. Threads and Instagram boss Adam Mosseri’s replies page is currently filled with the times he’s assured high-profile users that “we’re working on it!”

Read the full article. The lack of a desktop version and an embed function has greatly stymied the use of Threads posts in news reporting.

Zuck says Threads will add search and web ‘in the next few weeks’ https://t.co/9AobU9BIwl pic.twitter.com/731eaWfP2a

— The Verge (@verge) August 4, 2023