Created by Meta to be Twitter’s next competitor, Threads has already made its way to Google and Apple’s digital stores, with Mark Zuckerberg’s company expected to launch. The new app reaches more than 100 countries, although it does not yet include those that are part of the European Union.
It is true that in Portugal it is still not possible to try out the themes, but netizens from other parts of the world leave a warning to anyone who intends to create an account in the application. Since the threads are connected to Instagram, deleting the account means that the user on the other social network also disappears.
According to the topics privacy policy, users can deactivate the profiles created in the application whenever they wish. However, they can only be deleted by deleting the respective Instagram accounts.and push Mashable.com.
It should be noted that when a profile is deactivated on threads, its content will not be visible to other users, however, it will continue to exist on the application servers for some time, as shown by terms of use.
Although it was released not long ago, Mark Zuckerberg saysthrough a publication on topicsAnd The new Twitter competitor managed to collect more than 10 million profiles in just seven hours.
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The application has not yet reached the European Union as a The company has concerns regarding non-compliance with data protection rules in the community spacesays the Politico website.
Elon Musk has already left thread critiquesArguing that the app collects an overwhelming amount of data from users, including identity, health and fitness, finances, location, purchases, contacts, and “sensitive information” data, Lusa advances.