Threads to soon feature Twitter-like ‘Following’ tab

Meta’s Twitter rival, Threads, will soon feature a Twitter-like ‘Following’ tab. In response to a query related to the ‘Following’ tab, Instagram head Adam Mosseri on Friday said, “We’re working on it, but the next week is all about getting rid of bugs and keeping the lights on…” Replying to another thread, Mosseri explained, “We’ve got to build a following feed over the next couple weeks, but I do think a lot of why people are getting so much engagement right now is because you don’t need to follow a bunch of people in order to discover a bunch of new accounts in feed.” Criticising the non-existence of the ‘Following’ tab on Threads, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said, “Not surprising they’ve never given people the choice to remove the algorithm. Look at Instagram.” To this, Twitter-owner Elon Musk added, “A closed source, algorithm-only system means that manipulation of what information people see is essentially undetectable.”