Threads users will soon be able to delete account without losing Instagram profile

Meta rolled out Threads platform to rival Twitter some time ago. Threads account is linked to your Instagram account and once you set it up, you can not get rid of your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account. However, this process may change soon and users will be able to delete their Threads account without losing their Instagram profile.

At the ‘TechCrunch Disrupt’ event, Michel Protti, Meta’s chief privacy officer for product, said that the social network is “working on launching the actual deletion feature of a Threads account by December”. “Technically, it was extremely challenging to allow deletion of a separate Threads account without also deleting your overall Instagram account out of the gate,” he was quoted as saying.

Meta paid “particular attention to ensuring the user could still exercise their deletion rights, by deactivating the account to sort of hide all content, setting it to private or deleting individual threads”.

The social networking company is also working on integrating Threads with the “fediverse”. According to latest data from Insider Intelligence, Threads will have 23.7 million active monthly users in the US by the end of 2023.

On the contrary, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok could have 177.9 million, 135.2 million, and 102.3 million US active monthly users, reslectiviley, by the end of the year.

Elon Musk’s X is forecast to have 56.1 million active monthly users in the US by the end of 2023. (with inputs from IANS)