Threads Launches PC Messaging, Group Chat Feature Coming Soon
Meta announced that its social platform Threads has launched a PC messaging feature, supporting text and multimedia message sending, emoji reactions, message editing, and management of unknown messages. Threads' weekly message volume has grown by 30% since the beginning of this year, reaching an average of 350 million messages per week, with group chat functionality to be launched soon.
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(Central News Agency reporter Jiang Ming-yan, Taipei, May 6) Meta announced today that its social platform Threads has launched a PC messaging feature, supporting text and multimedia message sending, emoji reactions, message editing, and management of unknown messages. Threads' weekly message volume has grown by 30% since the beginning of this year, reaching an average of 350 million messages per week, with group chat functionality to be launched soon.
Meta announced today that its social platform Threads will globally launch its web-based messaging feature. Effective immediately, users can send and receive text or multimedia messages, edit sent content, react to friends' messages with emojis, and manage unknown messages via a computer's web browser, experiencing cross-device conversations.
Meta pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the weekly message volume on the Threads platform has grown by 30%, with an average of about 350 million messages sent through the platform each week, indicating that Threads has become an important channel for daily social interaction globally.
Meta stated that the new features not only extend Threads' interactive experience on mobile devices to computers but also strengthen Threads' important social positioning as a leader in cultural trends and a driver of real-time conversations. In the future, Threads will launch group chat functionality to further diversify community interactions. (Editor: Zhang Liang-zhi) 1150506
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(Central News Agency reporter Jiang Ming-yan, Taipei, May 6) Meta announced today that its social platform Threads has launched a PC messaging feature, supporting text and multimedia message sending, emoji reactions, message editing, and management of unknown messages. Threads' weekly message volume has grown by 30% since the beginning of this year, reaching an average of 350 million messages per week, with group chat functionality to be launched soon.
Meta announced today that its social platform Threads will globally launch its web-based messaging feature. Effective immediately, users can send and receive text or multimedia messages, edit sent content, react to friends' messages with emojis, and manage unknown messages via a computer's web browser, experiencing cross-device conversations.
Meta pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the weekly message volume on the Threads platform has grown by 30%, with an average of about 350 million messages sent through the platform each week, indicating that Threads has become an important channel for daily social interaction globally.
Meta stated that the new features not only extend Threads' interactive experience on mobile devices to computers but also strengthen Threads' important social positioning as a leader in cultural trends and a driver of real-time conversations. In the future, Threads will launch group chat functionality to further diversify community interactions. (Editor: Zhang Liang-zhi) 1150506
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