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Why is Threads expanding keyword search to all regions?

After launching an initial keyword search test in selected regions in August, Threads is now making its expanded search capacity available to all market users.

What Keywords Search on Threads will show you?

As expected, a keyword search on Threads will show you all posts mentioning your chosen terms. It provides another way to find relevant and topical content in the app.

Search results will also include hashtags-tagged posts with your search term or terms, with tags now also being tested with users in Australia.

What does Instagram chief Adam Mosseri say about it?

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says that the new search tools will support all languages available in the app, while more search enhancements are also coming soon.

Why the Threads team is cautious about adding tags?

The Threads team has been cautious about adding tags and searches due to the capacity of these elements to amplify spammy tactics. It is like adding irrelevant tags to posts to get your content displayed in a popular topic stream.

What Threads is looking at?

Threads is looking to take a more mindful approach to how it facilitates such and what its system incentivizes. It is part of why Threads has taken so long to expand its search to all regions.

But after testing it with users in Australia and New Zealand for three months, Threads now seems confident that it can manage this element.

There have yet to be any trending topics listed, another aspect Thread has been wary of.

Where does Meta apply its learning conceptually?

Conceptually, Meta is looking to apply its learnings from how these elements have changed user behaviors in social apps in the past to avoid the negatives of such.

It is why users with access to topic tags can only add one tag to each post, while it does not specifically enable straight hashtags in that you have to manually enter a tag into the composer to activate it in your post.

What Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has explained?

It is all part of Meta’s broader vision for Threads, as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has clearly explained that he had thought for a long time that there should be a billion-person public conversations app that is a bit more positive.

He further thinks that if they can keep it like this for a few more years, they will have a good chance of achieving the European vision.

All the other apps focused on straight engagement to boost activity have inadvertently amplified divisive and argumentative content. While also providing easy avenues for people to hijack conversations with junk.

Are Threads trying a different way or approach?

Threads is trying a different way. It may or may not work in the end, but if you are wondering why Meta is not just rolling out a raft of features to replicate Twitter, this would be it.

But the search is here, and we could see more improvements soon.

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