Spoilers, begone. Threads has finally expanded its Hidden Words feature to let you mute certain keywords from your feed, search and profiles. Previously, you could only hide certain terms from replies.
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, announced the update Thursday. He noted that this feature is meant to help give you more control over your Threads experience and to keep the platform "a place for positive conversation."
Threads has been growing steadily since its launch last July. On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Threads has surpassed 150 million monthly active users during the company's first-quarter earnings call. That's a 20 million jump from the last estimate Meta gave in February, which counts users who open the Threads app at least once a month.
New data from Apptopia estimates that Threads has now surpassed X (formerly Twitter) in daily active users. A Meta spokesperson said Threads only releases numbers on monthly active users but reiterated Zuckerberg's statement Wednesday that the platform "continues to be on the trajectory that we hoped to see."
Mosseri also said that Threads will be beta testing an archive feature that would allow you to remove posts from your profile, likely similar to Instagram's post archive function. Right now this is only available for a small number of users, but the feature will hopefully be more widely available soon after improvements have been made based on community feedback, according to a Meta spokesperson.
For now, you can take advantage of the newly expanded Hidden Words feature. It's a bit buried under submenus and not with your other account settings, but I'll walk you through how to find it and start muting terms.
Whether you're trying to avoid spoilers, certain topics or trolls, you can customize your feed using the Hidden Words feature. Here's how.
1.
Open
the
Threads
mobile
app.
2. Go
to
your
profile.
3.
Tap
the
globe
icon
in
the
upper
left
corner.
4.
Tap
Hidden
Words.
5.
Tap
On
under
Custom
words
and
phrases.
6.
Tap
Manage
custom
words
and
phrases.
7.
Enter
the
terms
you
want
to
hide.
8.
Tap
Add.
You can enter multiple-word terms by separating them with commas or altogether if it's a hashtag. If you use a comma, it will generate a blocked term with spaces in between the words and block each individual word. If you don't want to block the individual words, simply tap the "X" next to the term. For example, I'm trying to avoid spoilers for Emily Henry's new book Funny Story, but I don't want to mute every Thread with the words 'funny' and 'story.'
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