Subj : Want to delete your Threads account? Say goodbye to your Instagra
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Jul 06 2023 18:15:03

Want to delete your Threads account? Say goodbye to your Instagram too

Date:
Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:01:20 +0000

Description:
As it turns out, if you want to delete your Threads account, you also need to 
part ways with your Instagram.

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Its safe to say that Threads has drawn a massive audience since its launch on 
July 5, 2023, with 10 million signups in only seven hours. Making it easier 
is the fact that you can simply use your Instagram account to create a 
Threads account almost instantly. However, that all comes with a huge caveat. 

When you join threads, you link your Instagram account to your Threads in 
order to claim your user handle . As users are starting to discover, if you 
decide you want to delete that Threads account, youll also have to delete the 
Instagram account thats linked to it. Twitter user Emily Hughes posted her 
own experience with this. I deactivated my threads account already but it 
turns out you cant delete your threads account *without also deleting your 
Instagram account* so maybe just dont sign up! July 6, 2023 See more Im 
muting this but heres a screenshot pic.twitter.com/Ss0Cb3554n July 6, 2023 
See more 

This is also confirmed by Metas Supplemental Privacy Policy which states: You 
may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can 
only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account. The policy page further 
explains that this is because Threads is part of a users Instagram account. 

If you decide you want to delete your account anyway, we have a guide on how 
to delete your Threads account . You can also deactivate your account instead 
of deleting it, which keeps your Instagram safe and sound. Threads could be a 
serious threat to Twitter 

Despite this rather huge caveat to opening a Threads account, Instagram has 2 
billion users on the site that it can continue to leverage to grow its 
Threads user base. If this growth continues, it might be the first social 
media site that can truly challenge and maybe even surpass Twitter. 

Meanwhile, it seems that Twitter under the guidance of Elon Musk, its owner 
and former CEO, is committed to making increasingly bizarre and misguided 
decisions and policy changes that further hurt the user experience. The 
latest two gaffs were daily rate limits on how many Tweets you can view 
(currently 10,000 for verified and 1,000 for unverified users) and a login 
requirement for viewing Tweets. 

 Musk quietly reversed on the second one, allowing for Tweets to be publicly 
visible again. Interestingly enough, this was done just before Threads 
surprise launch on July 5 (originally the app was slated for a July 6 
release). 

According to Boing Boing , Musk also made a statement on Twitter that it 
would be "infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than 
indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram." Between his 
policy reversal and this statement, its clear that Metas initial success is 
having an effect. 

Itll be interesting to see how all this plays out, if Meta has made a true 
Twitter-killer app, and how Musk responds to that in any meaningful way other 
than empty threats and hollow truth statements.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/social-media/want-to-delete-your-threads-a
ccount-say-goodbye-to-your-instagram-too


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