In an effort to beat X, formerly known as Twitter, Meta\u2019s Threads app has started rolling out GIFs and polls to its users. The features, which have been long-requested by users, were announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Threads.<\/p>\n
CEO Mark Zuckerberg showcased the new features through a post containing a GIF and another featuring a poll. The post with polls shows up to three options but you can include four if you want. There\u2019s a real-time countdown timer to indicate how much time users have left to cast their votes.<\/p>\n
To view the poll results, users must participate by casting their vote. Threads will send a notification to participants once the poll concludes. To add a GIF to a Threads post, users simply need to tap the new GIF icon in the post composer and search for a relevant image.
\nThe addition of GIFs and polls is a significant step for Threads, as it brings the app closer to parity with X in terms of features. Meta has been aggressively investing in Threads in recent months, as it sees the app as a potential rival to X. In August, the company launched a web version of Threads and added a number of other features, including an edit button, profile switching, and way to view the posts you\u2019ve liked.<\/p>\n
The edit button on Threads is different from X\u2019s edit button in two ways- first it\u2019s free and second, Threads does not show the edit history of a post. X shows edit history to maintain transparency and curb misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In an effort to beat X, formerly known as Twitter, Meta\u2019s Threads app has started rolling out GIFs and polls to its users. The features, which have been long-requested by users, were announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Threads. CEO Mark Zuckerberg showcased the new features through a post containing a GIF and another featuring a poll. The post with polls shows up to three options but you can include four if you want. There\u2019s a real-time countdown timer to indicate how much time users have left to cast their votes. To view the poll results, users must participate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}