Meta is including group chats to Threads, permitting customers to message a number of pals in shared conversations as a substitute of sending separate DMs. Threads customers can create a bunch chat by beginning a brand new message and including as much as 50 individuals who comply with their Threads account. The group chat identify may be personalized to make it simpler to establish by subject or contributors, much like how group messages operate on Fb Messenger.
Group chat assist is at the moment rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, with Meta spokesperson Alec Booker telling The Verge that the corporate is working to increase messaging to those areas “as shortly as doable.” Future updates will embody improved inbox administration instruments and enabling Threads customers to ask folks to group chats by sharing a hyperlink, as a substitute of individually including them to the dialog.
The group messaging launch coincides with Threads increasing messaging options to the EU “over the following few days,” together with assist for each particular person DMs and group chats.
