Threads is getting closer to becoming a truly useful source of real-time news and updates. The app is finally rolling out the ability to search for posts in order of age, following last month's feature.
“In an effort to make it easier to find relevant and timely content on Threads, we're introducing a Recent tab for your searches,” instagram's Adam Mosseri wrote on . “The quality of search results is still evaluated here, but now you can see them in chronological order.”
The change has long been requested by users who hope the Meta app will one day be a source of breaking news and real-time information the way twitter historically worked. Being able to search for topics and keywords and find the latest results is key to finding up-to-date details and commentary on breaking news, sports, and anything else happening in real time.
On the other hand, Meta has also made it clear that he would prefer that “news” not be what characterizes Threads. Mosseri has said that she does not want to “encourage” hard news about Threads and the company's active political content. Threads' default “for you” algorithm is also known for showing days-old posts, random personal stories, and other content that isn't exactly timely.
It's also worth noting that Threads' new recency filter in search is not the same as the “latest” search filter in x. As Mosseri noted in his post, Meta is still hiding an unknown number of posts in the results search queries that have been “evaluated”. for quality”, so the Threads search will never appear all of posts containing your search terms. But being able to at least find posts that haven't been around for a few days should make searching for timely information much less frustrating.
