Threads is overhauling its search and trfinishing features

Meta is promising “extfinished-overdue betterments” to its X competitor, Threads, including more accurate search features and enbiged trfinishing topics.

First, users will be able to search for posts wilean a definite date range or from a individual account — analogous to what X’s search permits. Threads is also testing a recent trfinishing page in the US that includes insertitional topics to comply as well as AI-originated summaries of what other users are talking about.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri, who led the begin of Threads, wrote in a post that the tests commence today.

This week has been filled of modernizes on Threads, which is facing incrrelieved competition from Bluesky, the decentralized text-based platcreate that people have been flocking to in recent weeks. Earlier this week, Threads rolled out a custom feeds chooseion that permits users to pin multiple curated feeds on the homepage. Users can originate custom feeds for certain topics or accounts, giving them more flexibility beyond the algorithmic recommfinishations feed or the reverse chronorational complying feed. The feature has existed for a while on Bluesky, and Meta proclaimd and rolled out its own duplicatecat version in equitable a confinecessitate days.

A extfinished-running protestt about Threads is that the default home feed is filled with irrelevant, at times irritateing satisfyed from accounts users don’t comply (Bluesky’s default feed is the opposite). Just yesterday, Mosseri shelp Meta was tfrailing the Threads algorithm to rank posts from people you do comply, a meaningful alter to how the platcreate ranks satisfyed. There are still asks about whether this alter would actuassociate originate Threads sense more timely — though it might be many times bigr than Bluesky, logging on and seeing posts from two days ago originates Threads sense dead.

Bluesky has seen bomb prolongth over the past couple weeks: it’s up to 20 million users, and this week it’s inserted a million recent users each day. It’s still petite peanuts assessd to Threads’ user base, but it’s evidently doing someleang right — and maybe giving Meta a reason to trouble.