You can’t just leave the thread community interface connected to the Meta in English: as it turned out, deletion also takes the Instagram account with it.

Meta, which also owns Facebook, launched its new community site Thread, which aims to replace Twitter, at dawn Thursday Hungarian time, and it took off: 10 million people signed up for it in seven hours, and that number has only been increasing since then.

He was able to do all this in a way that is not even available in the European Union for data protection reasons, which relate to the fact that the service is closely related to Instagram, in fact it pulls data from there during registration.

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The close relationship is also aided by an interesting – and highly questionable – decision through which Techcrunch Note: If someone does not like the themes and wants to delete themselves from the new platform, the only way to do that is to permanently cancel their Instagram account at the same time. There is no way for someone to just delete your Threads profile. So it’s all or nothing.

The good news, however, is that one of Meta’s privacy policies states that certain deactivation functionality is still available, although it’s not entirely clear how that differs from deletion.

The Meta movement surprised many users, although interest has not waned: several major global brands have already signed up for the threads. Here we’ve written more about what you need to know about the highly anticipated new platform.

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