Bill Gates arrives at Threads with a funny video

Threads, the new social network of Goal continues to add users every minute around the world including celebrities, content creators, youtubers, singers and technology leaders such as Bill Gatesthe founder of Microsoft67 years old.

“I’m excited to jump into Threads,” Gates wrote as part of his first publication on the social network in which he attached a gifs of himself during an interview.

The post was commented on by himself, Mark Zuckerbergwho welcomed him to the platform with a message in which he indicated “A good leap to be honest.”

The publication of Gates not only means his arrival at Threads with the intention of connecting to a new audience, but also, it shows how a feature that is not available to other users could work: multimedia publications with gifs.

Although the publication disseminated by Gates This is not a GIF itself, but a second-long video clip that loops, autoplaying videos on Threads makes it appear to other users that it is a gifs.

For the moment, the only media files that can be disseminated in Threadsat least in this first version, are photographs and videos.

As reported Adam Mosseridirector of instagramin its official account of the platform, the team of developers of the social network is working to allow the use of gifs both for posts and replies.

“This is going to take a while,” said the executive when referring to future updates that could be carried out to improve the experience of users, who are still awaiting the arrival of other improvements such as a home screen dedicated to the publications of the accounts that are followed and another for TikTok-style recommendations, transmission of live videos and even messaging.

The availability of new multimedia formats is not the only improvement that would come to the application of Goal in the coming days, weeks or months. Mosseri also indicated that the developers are working on a feature that in Twitter it took them ages to decide whether or not to add: an edit button for the publicationswith the difference that to access this feature, Twitter requires a subscription of $8 per month.

Because this feature could lead to even more serious problems (such as the spread of spam content or disinformation), this feature could not be similar to the one that Instagram has and that allows the change of a publication in an unlimited way.

On the other hand, the executive also assured that a new version of the starting screen in which the contents can be differentiated and ordered according to the type of account that produces it. Like TikTokThreads could have two tabs: one dedicated to the accounts that are followed and which will be updated chronologically in real time and another in which the platform’s algorithm could broadcast content recommendations.

The search function would be another of the characteristics that they would present improvementsbut it has not been determined what type they would be.