Instagram's THREADS receives 30 million downloads in a few hours. Know how 'THREADS' works?

A New Way to Share With Text

• Threads is a new Instagram app for sharing text updates and participating in public conversations.

• You log in with your Instagram account, and postings can be up to 500 characters long, with links, photographs, and videos lasting up to 5 minutes.

• Threads will soon be compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we believe will determine the internet's future.

Pritish Bagdi

Threads is simple to use: simply log in using your Instagram account. Your Instagram username and verification will be carried across, and you will be able to customise your profile for Threads.

When they join Threads, everyone under the age of 16 (or under the age of 18 in some countries) is automatically assigned a private profile. You might opt to follow the same accounts you do on Instagram to locate additional people who share your interests. Threads supports the same fundamental accessibility features that are accessible on Instagram today, such as screen reader support and AI-generated image descriptions.

Threads feeds include threads posted by people you follow as well as recommended content from new creators you haven't yet encountered. Posts can be up to 500 characters long and contain links, images, and videos that are up to 5 minutes long. You may quickly share a Threads post to your Instagram story or as a link on any other channel you like.

Meta build Threads with tools for facilitating healthy, fruitful conversations. Within Threads, you have control over who can mention you or respond to you. You can use hidden words, just like on Instagram, to filter out comments to your threads that contain specified terms. By pressing the three-dot menu, you can unfollow, block, restrict, or report a profile on Threads, and any profiles you've blocked on Instagram will be automatically blocked on Threads.

Mark Zuckerberg's communiqué on safety, "We take safety seriously, as we do with all Meta products, and we will enforce Instagram's Community Guidelines on content and interactions on the app. We've invested more than $16 billion in establishing the teams and technologies required to defend our users since 2016, and we're still committed to furthering our industry-leading integrity efforts and investments."

Further, he added, "Soon, we are planning to make Threads compatible with ActivityPub, the open social networking protocol established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the body responsible for the open standards that power the modern web. This would make Threads interoperable with other apps that also support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon and WordPress – allowing new types of connections that are simply not possible on most social apps today. Other platforms including Tumblr have shared plans to support the ActivityPub protocol in the future." "We're committed to giving you more control over your Threads audience; our objective is to collaborate with ActivityPub to provide you the choice to stop using Threads and move your material elsewhere. others using compatible apps will be able to follow and communicate with others on Threads without having a Threads account, ushering in a new era of diverse and interconnected networks. If you have a public profile on Threads, your postings will be accessible from other apps, allowing you to reach out to new individuals with little extra effort. If you have a private profile, you'll be able to accept Threads users who want to follow you and interact with your posts, just like you can on Instagram."

The brains behind the THREADS shares their joy and said, "In addition to working to make Threads compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, we'll be adding a number of new features soon to help you continue to discover threads and creators you're interested in, such as improved feed recommendations and a more robust search function that makes it easier to follow topics and trends in real-time. We're looking forward to hearing users' comments as we strive to develop new features and bring exciting new ways to engage on the app."

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Meduza ties up with Sam Tompkins & Em Beihold for one of the summer’s most awaited anthems ‘Phone'.

The Italian production trio's molten hot streak continues with another dance floor hit.

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'Phone,' a slamming house beat with melody at its center, tells the story of a dissatisfied relationship through the medium of a continuously ringing phone. The uplifting groove and trademark atmospheric sonics of the tune serves as the perfect backdrop for a breathtaking duet between emerging British talent Sam Tompkins and platinum-certified US singer-songwriter Em Beihold.

'Phone' maintains Meduza's hot streak. The Italian trio is responsible for some of the biggest club crossover hits in recent years, such as 'Paradise,' Meduza's collaboration with Irish chart-topper Dermot Kennedy, which has over 500 million Spotify streams and platinum awards in multiple countries, peaking at #5 in the UK Singles charts. More recently, there came the viral 'Tell It To My Heart,' which included Hozier, and the similarly stirring 'Bad Memories,' which has nearly 300 million Spotify listens. The group also debuted 'Our House' with James Hype at Hi Ibiza and is currently in the midst of a summer residency at the Club Room.

Meduza burst into the forefront in 2019 with 'Piece Of Your Heart (ft. Goodboys),' a groundbreaking global smash that has achieved over 1 billion combined streams and a Grammy nomination. The song was certified diamond, multi-platinum, and gold around the world, notably in the United Kingdom, where it sold over 1.2 million units and peaked at #2 on the UK Singles Charts and #1 on the US Dance Charts. This was followed by the equally popular 'Lose Control,' a collaboration with UK musicians Becky Hill and Goodboys, another global, multi-platinum-selling smash that peaked at #11 on the UK Singles chart and has had over a billion streams alone.

Sam Tompkins, one of the UK's most exciting vocal talents at the moment, is making songs direct from his Brighton basement flat. A viral musical clip from his living room soon led to a collaboration with JNR Choi and the now iconic single 'To The Moon,' with a sound that seems to soundtrack TikTok. Nicki Minaj and Yung Bleu recently sampled his song 'Whole' on their single 'Love In The Way,' cementing his status as a favorite collaborator for many American performers. Krept & Konan are admirers, as is Jaykae, who appeared onstage at one of Sam's recent headline gigs.

Sam Tompkins, one of the UK's most exciting vocal talents at the moment, is making songs direct from his Brighton basement flat. A viral musical clip from his living room soon led to a collaboration with JNR Choi and the now iconic single 'To The Moon,' with a sound that seems to soundtrack TikTok. Nicki Minaj and Yung Bleu recently sampled his song 'Whole' on their single 'Love In The Way,' cementing his status as a favorite collaborator for many American performers. Krept & Konan are admirers, as is Jaykae, who appeared onstage at one of Sam's recent headline gigs. If there's one hitmaker whose backing has meant the most, it's Justin Bieber: a musician Sam grew up listening to but now considers a close friend.

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Will Ethereum metaverses be transformed by ERC 6551 NFT-owned wallets?

A recent episode of the Unchained podcast addressed how ERC 6551 could revolutionise the crypto market by providing NFTs with their own wallets. The planned ERC 6551 token standard for NFTs has piqued the curiosity of crypto fans since it would allow digital assets to hold other tokens, a development that has the potential to radically alter the NFT and metaverse scene.

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ERC 6551

What exactly is ERC 6551?

The token standard proposal, announced in February, aims to create a system that provides a smart contract account to every ERC-721 (non-fungible token). These tokens will be able to hold assets and interact with applications without requiring any changes to existing ERC-721 smart contracts or infrastructure.

The key components of this system are a permissionless registry for deploying token-bound accounts and a standard implementation interface.

Each ERC-721 coin will be assigned a unique smart contract account, allowing it to interact with the blockchain, record transaction history, and possess on-chain assets. The owner of the ERC-721 token has control over each token-bound account, allowing them to initiate on-chain operations on behalf of their token.

The proposal aims to be as backward compatible as possible with existing non-fungible token contracts. EIP-155 chain IDs are also used to uniquely identify ERC-721 tokens, allowing for the optional support of multi-chain token-bound accounts.

What are the benefits of ERC 6551?

The ERC 6551 standard was a potential solution to past attempts to standardise NFTs owning assets, such as the requirement for custom logic in their smart contract. The ERC 6551 standard eliminates these limitations by offering NFTs the same rights as Ethereum users, allowing them to hold assets and execute actions.

While ERC 721, ERC 1155, and soul-bound tokens exist as means to own objects on Ethereum, the podcast panelists emphasised that ERC 6551 is not a token standard in the traditional sense because it offers every current ERC 721 its own wallet, unlocking a new layer of compatibility for NFTs.

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