Threads now permits you to scribble on high of different customers’ posts

Threads is including a brand new characteristic that lets customers get a bit of extra inventive in remixing posts from different individuals. The app now has a “markup” instrument that permits customers to scribble on high of posts they wish to reshare, Adam Mosseri shared in .

Markup skills seem within the menu for quoting and reposting. However as a substitute of merely quoting a put up, it launches an modifying instrument the place you possibly can add highlights, arrows or doodles on high of a screenshot of the put up. Mosseri stated the characteristic is meant “so you possibly can add your inventive take” on posts, however the instruments are pretty restricted for now. You’ll be able to solely add yellow highlights or crimson arrows and doodles, although Mosseri stated there could be “extra to return quickly” from Meta.

A Threads spokesperson confirms that the characteristic will perform equally to cite posts in that the unique consumer is notified if somebody chooses to mark up their put up. You too can use the “who can reply and quote” setting to disable markups by yourself posts.

The app can be making two different options it’s already previewed official: and . The options will doubtless be significantly helpful for manufacturers, creators and others who handle knowledgeable presence on the positioning, which has to date lacked most of the extra superior business-focused instruments Meta’s different platforms have. Each may additionally turn out to be useful ought to Meta start to to Threads, a transfer that’s reportedly within the works for the start of 2025.