Threads, the Twitter-like app from Instagram, is shaping as much as look extra like its competitor X with the current launches of trending subjects, an in-app digicam, drafts, and as of right this moment, a bookmarking characteristic for saving posts for later reference extra privately than utilizing a public “like” (the center icon.)

Bookmarking has been a preferred characteristic for former X customers and heavy information shoppers, because it permits you to curate a set of hyperlinks and posts you might have to refer again to for any cause — maybe due to an extended article you plan to learn later, or a big piece of knowledge you need to recall. On X, paid subscribers may even set up their bookmarks into varied folders for simpler entry.

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Whereas the bookmarking icon is inside simple attain on X on the backside of the publish, the brand new characteristic on Threads is a little more hidden. As an alternative of with the ability to save a publish from the app’s most important timeline, you’ll need to faucet on the three-dot menu to entry the “Save” choice.

To return to your bookmarks at a later time, you’ll want to move into the app’s Settings display screen.

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After asserting the information concerning the new addition through Threads (in fact!), a number of customers complained within the feedback that they don’t but have entry to this characteristic and even the not too long ago introduced traits. That’s as a result of Instagram is rolling out new Threads options in phases over time, to not all the Threads person base directly. That is par for the course for Threads, not solely as a result of the undertaking has fewer engineering assets, in contrast with the remainder of Meta, however as a result of Threads continues to be a large app by itself, with some 130 million month-to-month energetic customers. 

Bookmarks aren’t the one new characteristic being noticed by Threads customers. One other Threads person observed they’ve now begun to obtain notifications from Threads and Fb of their Instagram notifications. In one other effort to develop its app, Threads additionally started testing a cross-posting characteristic from Fb to Threads, the corporate confirmed final week.