Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, is now rolling out one of its most-requested features – an edit button. Announced by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this afternoon, Threads will start rolling out an edit button today for all users.
The option will allow users to edit a post for a brief time after a post goes out. The post can be edited as much as needed for the first five minutes, but after five minutes, it’s blocked. The functionality works both on mobile apps and on the web and is appearing already for some users.
Notably, the functionality is free, but also more limited compared to Twitter’s version given the more strict time limit. Threads also don’t show a history of edited posts, which makes it less obvious which posts have been edited. Rather, there’s only an indicator of whether or not a post has been edited in the first place.
Also rolling out today is a new feature called “Voice Threads,” where users can attach an audio clip to a post. Tom Warren demoed the functionality, but it doesn’t appear to be widely available yet (at least on Android).
Today’s announcement comes as Threads is said to be preparing to launch a Trends feature in an effort to better compete with X. The news was revealed after a Threads user spotted the update in a screenshot posted accidentally by a Threads employee. The screenshot shows a numbered list of trending topics, along with information about how many “threads” were actively discussing each item.
Unlike on X, Threads’ Trends list does not appear to list trends by topic, such as News and Sports. It also does not appear to have a list of trends that are personalized like X’s “For You.” Despite this, the addition of a Trends page would make Threads more competitive with X.
