Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed astonishment at the way Instagram Threads app had received 30 million signups just less than 24 hours within its launch

Threads is a new app, built by the Instagram team, for sharing text updates and joining public conversations

While Meta Platforms feels that Instagram connects billions of people around the world over photos and videos, Threads would bring together people over texts and enabling them to converse by typing

Here are 10 important things to know about Instagram Threads-

1.  The posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos up to 5 minutes in length

2. Log in to your Threads account with your Instagram username and password

3. You can customize your profile into Public or Private modes according to your choices

4. Everyone who is under 16 (or under 18 in certain countries) will be defaulted into a private profile when they join Threads

5. You can choose to follow the same accounts you do on Instagram simultaneously once you open Threads account and later find more people to connect

6. You can easily repost a person’s post on your Threads profile just as we retweeton Twitter and even share a Threads post to your Instagram story, or share your post as a link on any other platform you choose.

7. You can unfollow, block, restrict or report a profile on Threads by tapping the three-dot menu, and any accounts you’ve blocked on Instagram will automatically be blocked on Threads

8. If you deactivate your Instagram account, your Threads profile will also be deactivated

9. Deactivating your Threads profile won’t delete your Threads data or affect your Instagram account

10.  As Threads is powered by Instagram, in order to delete your Threads profile and data, you will have to delete your Instagram account