# Threads Provides Spoiler Tags for Posts

After testing them out over the previous few months, Threads has now launched its new spoiler tags in posts, which can allow customers to cover phrases of their posts behind a tappable overlay.

As you may see on this instance, posted by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, now if you wish to point out one thing with out letting everybody see (like, for instance, a TV present spoiler), you may spotlight the related textual content throughout the composer, then choose “Mark spoiler” to blur it.

Viewers will then have the selection as to whether or not they wish to reveal that information or not, which can add one other engagement factor to your Threads posting choices.

As famous, Threads has been growing this for a while, with the primary indicators of the function noticed in testing again in January. The choice is just like the spoiler tags on Reddit, offering one other consideration when sharing probably disruptive information.

The primary goal right here is TV present dialogue, which continues to be a serious factor of interplay on X, although Threads says that it’s additionally seeing extra chatter about trending reveals, together with “The Final of Us” and “The White Lotus.”

Tapping into trending leisure dialogue might assist Threads turn into an even bigger competitor for X, and develop its evolving group, which is steadily rising to turn into a extra necessary companion for dwell occasion dialogue.

Certainly, Threads is now as much as 350 million month-to-month lively customers, and continues to see sturdy obtain momentum. X reported again in March that it’s now serving 600 million month-to-month actives, although additionally it is shedding customers in some markets.

By specializing in dwell occasion dialogue, which additionally consists of dwell sports activities, Threads is hoping to have the ability to dethrone X because the place to be for in-the-moment engagement. And if it might win over extra of those communities, it might properly be on monitor to turn into the subsequent billion-user platform, as envisioned by Zuck and Co.