Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is getting some new options “this week,” based on a publish from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The brand new options embrace the flexibility to share a Threads publish to your Instagram DMs, a approach so as to add customized alt textual content to pictures and movies that you simply embrace in posts, and a brand new “point out button” that allows you to “simply point out somebody’s account in your Thread,” Zuckerberg says. (For some motive, this hyperlink solely works for me on cellular.)

To share a publish through Instagram DMs, faucet the paper airplane-like icon on a publish. So as to add alt textual content, begin a publish, connect pictures or movies utilizing the paperclip icon, after which faucet the “Alt” button that seems on the picture. I don’t seem to have the point out button — possibly I’m lacking it! — however you may point out one other person whereas drafting a publish by coming into the @ image after which typing anyone’s username or selecting from one of many recommended choices. And I ought to word that my iPhone had lately up to date the Threads app, so when you’re not seeing the brand new options, ensure you’re on the most recent model.

These updates are good — customized alt textual content specifically looks like one that ought to have been within the app at launch — however I’m guessing many are nonetheless ready for larger updates like an online consumer and improved search. On Friday, Zuckerberg mentioned these options are coming in “the subsequent few weeks,” so hopefully we don’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer for them. At the least the app has a following feed, although I nonetheless want it didn’t power you out of it.