To serve the EU market, where users speak many different languages, there will be a need to provide search capabilities. But outside the United States, it will also expand the usefulness of Threads to the more than 100 countries where it is already accessible.
In the months since the app’s release, the Threads team has been rapidly improving it in response to user feedback. Features like a chronological following feed, a web app, a way to view your likes, polls, GIFs, support for hashtags (without hashes), an edit button, profile switching, and more have been added.
The company has also promised a developer API and plans to integrate with ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that also powers Mastodon and other networks.