Instagram To Shut Down Its Threads App This Year

Instagram is bidding goodbye to its companion Threads messaging app. Introduced back in 2019, the app will no longer be available for users by the end of this year. As per a report by TechCrunch, Threads app users will start getting a warning about the shutdown, starting November 23. The in-app alert will ask people to switch to the main Instagram app.

The Threads app shutdown message was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who shared this information via a tweet last week. One thing worth noting here is that Instagram still hasn’t made any official announcement for the same.

Threads for #Instagram will no longer be available starting in December 2021 👀 pic.twitter.com/iYR4OZ03KK— Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) November 9, 2021

Instagram introduced the Threads app as a way for users to communicate with their close friends while looking at others’ Stories. Although, the “close friends” narrative soon changed as the app decided to allow users to send messages to everyone.