Topics add new features to highlight topics and reduce responses

Meta’s social network SubjectsX competitor with more than 320 million active users per month, is now Offering new features Concerning the topics and controls of response and video playback in the application, among other things. The company says it makes political content suggestions more customized for the user.

Combated, the features aim to make the application more related to users and maintain their participation with the network content, at a time when X is no longer a competitor to themes only. Today, Meta faces the climb of alternative networks like Bluesky, which now has more 33 million users and Inspiring platform for its competitors on Instagramalso.

To help users to connect better, users will now be able to add up to 10 topics they care about to their personal file on the social network. You will explain to you to click on these relevant posts, which makes it easy to deal with others on the social network who share your own interests.

The company started testing the feature to add it Interest for personal files earlier this monthTechcrunch. The feature is still described as a “test”, with its launch wider today.

When creating a new post, you will now see claims to add a proposal direction topic, if it is related, or a topic related to other publications that you previously shared. This topic mark’s suggestions aim to help the participants in reaching an audience also interested in this topic, explained by Meta.

Themes also offer a mark of re -design theme, which resembles the pill and is located next to the posts on you feed. Users will be able to quickly click on the brand to see all posts marked by this particular topic.

Meta claims leaflets with teacher topics “generally receive more display methods” than those that do not share any specific data to support this statement.

Another new feature allows you to manage how people interact with your posts and the posts you see. Now you will only allow your followers to respond to or quote from a specific post.

The addition depends on indicators of control of the quotation that was launched again in November 2024, which allows you to restrict the quotation publications Any person, profiles you follow, or those that you mentioned only.

Also in November, the topics began to try to allow users to do so Choose a virtual summary that is not the algorithm summary after Subtracting summaries for competition with the social network Bluesky.

The interconnection indicators will now allow users to mix the arrangement of custom summits. This means that you can even make a dedicated virtual feed that is displayed when the application is opened first – users have requested a feature.

Another update improves video playing on threads. Along with other changes, META launches a redesigned video player with easy access to the suspension/playback and skip the controls with the progress bar to clean easily via video.

It is worth noting that Mita also said that she began to promote civil and political content to the threads in a more specially specialized way.

The company decided in a controversial way in 2024 to Stopping the recommendation proactive Political content for users on Instagram and Threads, before the critical American presidential elections. After the elections were concluded, with President Trump in power, dead Declare It will then start restoring political content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads.

META CEO META also He dismantled the company’s fact -examination program After the elections, choose to rely only on societal moderation efforts to move forward.

As part of these efforts, the company said it will begin to re -add political content to user summaries, based on what Meta determines they want to see. In other words, it aims to re -create the echo room where the user’s global view is enhanced without being exposed to the other side.

Meta says it will continue to listen to the user’s notes because it is developing interconnected indicators.

Additional reports by Sarah Perez.