Instagram is rumoured to be working on a new and potentially controversial messaging app
It's called Threads and will reportedly let users share status, location and even their phone's battery life with friends or followers.
Instagram is reportedly developing a new messaging app called Threads which will let people hand out details of their location and even smartphone battery life to friends and followers.
The Facebook-owned social network is rumoured to be designed to connect people to loved ones and allow them to semi-constantly share information about their lives.
Details of Threads have been published by The Verge, which said the app will feature an option called ‘automatic sharing’.
Once this is ticked, Instagram will automatically hand out information to people on your ‘close friends’ list.
As well as your location and battery life, it will reveal if you’re moving and let you easily share pictures or videos.
However, Threads will not give away your location as you journey from place to place and will instead only mention that you’re ‘on the move’ or somesuchlike.
The app is obviously great for parents seeking to keep an eye on their kids.
It’s also very handy for stalkers, although they may find it difficult to sneak their way onto a target’s list of close friends.
Facebook recently announced plans to change the names of both WhatsApp and Instagram.
The two apps will soon be known as ‘WhatsApp from Facebook’ and ‘Instagram from Facebook’.
Its expected the apps will be integrated in a way that could spell big changes for users.
Zuckerberg says they will all be subsumed into a ‘privacy-focused social network’.
‘People want to be able to choose which service they use to communicate with people,’ he wrote in a blog post.
‘However, today if you want to message people on Facebook you have to use Messenger, on Instagram you have to use Direct, and on WhatsApp you have to use WhatsApp.
‘We want to give people a choice so they can reach their friends across these networks from whichever app they prefer.’