Threads will put limits on the frequency of posts to prevent spam attacks, in a similar way to Twitter

July 18 (Portaltic/EP) –

Threads has announced that will implement “stricter” measures in the limits of frequency of the publications that appear in the ‘feed’ of users for avoid the rise of spam attacks on the social networkin a similar way to Twitter’s viewing limits.

Earlier this month, the Twitter owner Elon Musk He announced “temporary” limitations on the display of tweets, a measure he took with the aim of “addressing the extreme levels of data extraction and manipulation of the system,” as he said at the time.

In this way, he implemented Blocked access to the social network for users who have not logged in and limited viewing of tweets to 10,000 posts for the verified accounts in the social network -that is, with a blue badge and, therefore, subscribed to Twitter Blue- and 1,000 tweets for unverified.

Now, Threads, the new ‘microblogging’ application designed to “share ideas and trends with text” and developed by Meta has announced that impose limits on the frequency of posts for fight these ‘spam’ attacks that the social network is also suffering.

This has been detailed by Instagram Manager Adam Mosseri through a publication on the platform itself, in which it warns that spam attacks “have increased” and that, to act against it, Threads will have to be “stricter” on issues such as post frequency cap.

Are restrictions will translate into a greater “involuntary limitation of active people”, who has qualified as “false positives”. So it could affect how many posts users will be able to see or other actions on the platform.

So Threads will limit post views, even though you haven’t specified what these restrictions will be. However, it has also warned that if any user is affected by these “protections”, has to Notify the social network.

This measure aims to fight against the publications of the ‘bots’, which carry out repetitive actions on the social network even, on many occasions, for malicious purposes. For example, these accounts handle post comments or send ‘spam’ messageseither to do advertising or to defraud the user.

In fact, ‘bot’ profiles can cause problems in the user experience in the social network, since their posts can hinder the flow of the social network with unwanted or annoying content.

In this sense, some users have also expressed about it on Threads, who have responded to Mosseri’s post claiming that they see a lot of spam posts in their main feed and denouncing how annoying it is. “It seems that I waste half my time blocking ‘bots’ that promote gambling and cryptocurrency sites,” has pointed out by one of the users.

“You have to do something, because this is at least 50 percent of every post that gets push”, ha detailed another user, showing by a screenshot in which you can see multiple bot responses to the same post.