# Threads Expands Spoiler Tags to Picture and Video Content material

Threads has added one other ingredient to its new spoiler tags in posts, with customers now in a position to disguise each textual content and media content material behind a digital display screen to guard customers from doubtlessly delicate information.

As you may see on this instance, now, along with choosing “Mark spoiler” on highlighted textual content, which places a tappable defend up over that choice, you too can select the identical on photos and video in posts.
As defined by Threads:
“Within the composer, choose the textual content you need to disguise and faucet ‘Mark spoiler.’ To cover multimedia, faucet the three-dot menu on a photograph, video or GIF, then – you guessed it – ‘Mark spoiler.’”
Threads says that posts can have a couple of spoiler, although any content material that you simply disguise nonetheless must abide by the platform’s guidelines and pointers. So you may’t use this to submit offensive content material, and easily disguise it from view (like X’s “Delicate content material” tags, which many individuals additionally use as spoiler tags).
And once more, to disclose a spoiler that you simply see in another person’s submit, you may faucet on the hidden textual content or media to indicate it in full.
The added multimedia ingredient will present extra capability to share content material within the app, with out upsetting different customers who might not need to see the outcomes of a TV present, sporting occasion, and so on.
Certainly, with Threads taking intention at X’s key viewers, it actually needs to win over leisure and sports activities communities who have interaction in real-time round main occasions.
X nonetheless holds the lead on this respect, however with 350 million customers and counting, Threads is catching up, and as such, offering extra methods for customers to work together round these parts may very well be a key technique to win extra of the dialogue.
It’s a superb addition, which supplies extra engagement capability, and can assist Threads customers share extra content material on extra matters in-stream.
Threads says that the brand new multimedia spoiler tags are being rolled out to all customers, however is probably not accessible to everybody simply but. Should you don’t see it, chances are you’ll must replace your app to the newest model.
Andrew Hutchinson