Threads Posts Now Support 'text Attachments' Up To 10,000 Characters

That was fast. A week aft a caller characteristic for sharing long-form matter was spotted successful nan Threads app, Meta is making nan research official. Threads users will now beryllium capable to append matter snippets of up to 10,000 characters to their posts successful a characteristic Meta says is meant to support journalists and creators connected nan platform. 

As Engadget elaborate last week, nan characteristic is reasonably basal for now. Selecting "text attachment" from nan station composer opens up a elemental matter editor that has immoderate formatting options. Once published to Threads, matter attachments unfastened either successful a full-screen position connected mobile aliases successful a dedicated model connected threads.com. If nan station contains a link, nan matter attachment will besides show a preview of nan linked station astatine nan extremity of text.

That's notable arsenic Meta has been trying to make links shared connected Threads more prominent successful an effort to springiness creators a boost connected nan platform. So far, location person been mixed results. While information shows engagement pinch links has been increasing successful caller months, Threads is sending very small traffic to websites overall.

In a blog post, nan institution says nan characteristic was inspired by personification behaviour arsenic group often stock "screenshots of longer contented from books, articles, newsletters, podcast transcripts." The institution besides suggests that nan characteristic could beryllium utilized by authors and journalists who wish to stock previews of their published works.

While nan 10,000 characteristic limit technically intends that authors and journalists could people important amounts of penning straight connected Threads, matter attachments deficiency galore features you'd expect from publishing tools. There are constricted matter formatting options, for example, and you can't embed media aliases do overmuch other to break up large chunks of text. (A Meta spokesperson says highlighting and different formatting abilities are successful nan works.)

Text attachments besides aren't compatible pinch sharing to nan fediverse, truthful followers from different ActivityPub services won't beryllium capable to spot them moreover if you’ve opted in to fediverse sharing. But galore users will apt still find nan characteristic preferable to sharing lengthy multi-part Threads, which tin beryllium difficult to travel and don't ever each look successful a azygous position successful nan app aliases website. 

Meta says nan characteristic is still successful its early days and that it plans to adhd much functionality to matter attachments successful nan future, on pinch much creator-focused updates.