Threads rolling out web version amid usage drop

San Francisco: Meta’s Twitter (now X) rival app Threads on Tuesday launched its web version, amid a massive decline in daily active users.

Users will now be able to post, view their feed, and interact with posts from the desktop.

Desktop users will not be able to edit their profile or send a thread over to Instagram DMs.

Meta has also announced new Thread features including the ability to directly share posts in Instagram direct messages (DMs), a mention button, and more.

The Threads team is working to add more features to bring the web app on par with mobile over the weeks ahead, according to reports.

Earlier this month, Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg had said the company would bring the web version in “the next few weeks.”

Last week, responding to a user's post, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said, "Desktop web will happen long before foldable support. We're close on the web and not working on foldables."

Mosseri said that the company had been testing an early web version "internally for a week or two", but it still "needs some work" before wide release.

Threads has been in steady decline after peaking at around 50,000 daily active users globally on Android devices in early July and now stands at around 10 million.

Over 10 million people joined the social media app within seven hours of its July 5 launch. Threads became the most downloaded non-game app on its first day in a decade and surpassed 100 million users before its downfall began.

With inputs from IANS