{"id":5059,"date":"2023-10-13T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/threads-is-rolling-out-its-new-edit-button-and-for-free"},"modified":"2023-10-13T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T19:37:50","slug":"threads-is-rolling-out-its-new-edit-button-and-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/threads-is-rolling-out-its-new-edit-button-and-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads is rolling out its new \u201cEdit\u201d button (and for free!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meta launched its Twitter clone, Threads, a few months ago. While the initial hype boosted its followership to new heights, the app has had its fair share of struggles since then.\u00a0 Since then, Meta has been adding new features to improve Threads\u2019s user experience. Recently, Meta even launched a desktop version of the app to attract PC users, although the functionality of the desktop app is fairly limited.\u00a0 Now,\u00a0Meta has added a new \u201cEdit\u201d button, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday. The Edit button was one of the most requested features and is currently rolling out, and for free, unlike on X, a.k.a. Twitter.\u00a0 Threads\u2019s new Edit button is great but has a strict time limit&nbsp; According to the announcement, Threads has already started rolling out the new feature. This new option allows users to edit a post for a brief period after the post goes live.&nbsp; While it\u2019s an interesting and useful feature, there\u2019s a time limit. The post is available to all the edits only for the first five minutes.\u00a0The new Edit functionality is already available for the mobile app, with some users seeing it on the web version. Image: 9to5Google While this new &#8220;Edit&#8221; button functionality is free, it is more limited compared to what we have on X (formerly Twitter), given the time limit.\u00a0 Threads also don\u2019t show a history of edited posts but rather an indicator of whether or not a post has been edited, making it less obvious.&nbsp; There\u2019s also a new Voice Threads&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/knowtechie.com\/threads-rolling-out-edit-button-functionality\/\">Threads is rolling out its new \u201cEdit\u201d button (and for free!)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta launched its Twitter clone, Threads, a few months ago. While the initial hype boosted its followership to new heights, the app has had its fair share of struggles since&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,300,3784,4743,114,740,104,72,382,1665,12,3472,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}