Instagram Threads To Impose Rate Limit Within Weeks Of Launch. Elon Musk Reacts

Instagram Threads, which is a rival to Twitter, is following the latter's footsteps and imposing rate limits, or limits on how many posts users can view.

Instagram Threads, which is a rival to Twitter, is following the latter's footsteps and imposing rate limits, or limits on how many posts users can view. Meta-owned Instagram Threads, which has been recently launched has announced that it has to impose rate limits in the wake of spam attacks. The announcement was made by Instagram boss Adam Mosseri, who posted that the platform has to get tighter on a number of things, including rate limits.

"Spam attacks have picked up so we're going to have to get tighter on things like rate limits, which is going to mean more unintentionally limiting active people ( false positives). If you get caught up those protections let us know," Mosseri wrote. 

Threads rival Twitter's owner Elon Musk in a reply to a screenshot of the announcement by Mosseri wrote on Twitter: “Lmaooo Copy 🐈.”

This development comes amid reports of a decline in user engagement on Threads, the new social media platform by Meta. threads had reported a record 100 million sign-ups in just five days of being announced. As per a report by CNBC, data from Sensor Tower and Similarweb indicates a decrease in daily active users and time spent on the platform.

Instagram Threads is also said to introduce an edit button, which is currently missing, and other features such as Twitter-like hashtags and a trending page, among others. According to Mosseri, Instagram head, these upcoming features are confirmed to arrive on Threads. It should be noted that hashtag is how a topic trends on Twitter and this is missing on Instagram Threads as of now. Meta's other suite of apps like Instagram and Facebook have supported hashtags for many years.