Meta’s Threads exams hashtags and trending subjects, kind of

Mark Zuckerberg revealed Meta is testing a brand new tagging function for Threads that’s like hashtags, however not precisely. Sure, you’ll use a hashtag to create or add to a subject’s dialog, however as an alternative of displaying up as a hashtagged phrase, Threads converts it to a blue-text hyperlink. Australian customers will get the primary crack at it within the preliminary “restricted take a look at” earlier than it will get a wider launch.

Typing a “#” into the submit textual content discipline brings up a card with the subject you’re tagging or different, comparable ones. Beneath that, every of the subjects comes with a rely of posts about it, similar to Instagram does.

These with Threads’ new tagging function can solely add a single subject to a submit at a time, which is able to in all probability restrict anybody hoping to spam their posts for higher attain. However once more, this might be a pleasant factor, particularly should you just like the clear look Threads has (for now), or for anybody who hates in-line hashtags. Meta says it is going to proceed to work on the function as time goes on, so this primary model in all probability received’t be its closing type.