“Threads... invites users to automatically share their location, speed, and battery life with friends”

Absolutely not. This is pointless. No one needs to know my speed & battery life – maybe my location – but even that isn’t needed. https://t.co/fNjHf0jiBi

— DadBod (@db) August 27, 2019

Path lives! https://t.co/GhzSKZMdWs

— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) August 27, 2019

Not only will this land dead on arrival, but the confusion it creates around Stories & the intersection of Close Friends may actually nuke Instagram DM culture. Sliding into those CFs w/ an xo thread? Truly eating itself alive. So much potential. So much? https://t.co/ouez1dbBYv

— Daniel Sinclair (@_DanielSinclair) August 26, 2019

I want to be LESS accessible. I could use some help corroborating bogus excuses to get out of birthdays/other social gatherings. Is that on the roadmap or...? https://t.co/5iqO4ndoXw

— Jill Seroka (@jillseroka) August 26, 2019

do not trust. will not download. https://t.co/tvTHO8xAwc

— drew olanoff (@yoda) August 26, 2019

so remind me again...why did the instagram founders leave? https://t.co/9RJNsMhK5b

— drew olanoff (@yoda) August 27, 2019

Say hello to Instagram's latest assault on Snapchat: a messaging app for your Close Friends that you can use to automatically share your status, location, battery life, and more https://t.co/bMiAHUuIYd

— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) August 26, 2019

This new IG sub-app is Violence against those of us who text that we're "getting on my bike in five" half an hour before we actually stand up. https://t.co/WMNW1hBk45

— Dustin Kurtz (@theunread) August 26, 2019

I’ve never been more happy to avoid this network of awful https://t.co/mBP5rdssp4

— Ryan Lawler (@ryanlawler) August 27, 2019

I’ve been waiting for status messages to come back on steroids for so long and I’m so sad that this is coming from Facebook. Apple’s Find My Friends was absolutely primed for this kind of thing but Apple’s inability to build social apps is legendary. https://t.co/VtzryHb6Ww

— Andre Plaut (@andreplaut) August 26, 2019

Facebook exec: How can we get kids to continuously share their GPS location and remaining phone battery life with us AND stay in the product longer?

Exec 2: Make a better Snap. Like a messaging app but with all our Insta filters etc

Facebook: https://t.co/rqxzpBGTn6

— Belinda Barnet (@manjusrii) August 26, 2019

Instagram is apparently building the closest thing to Path anyone’s built in a while. https://t.co/sUv9LHArMG

— Martin SFP Bryant (@MartinSFP) August 26, 2019

Letting friends to spy on each other, anywhere, anytime. How wholesome ☺️ https://t.co/x6ZWt3e4s2

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) August 26, 2019

This app Instagram is developing—for close friends to share messages and location and stuff—strikes me as a really cool idea. But the thing Snapchat figured out that nobody else understands is that NOBODY WANTS MORE APPS. Make this part of Instagram! https://t.co/82P5qvNJQF

— David Pierce (@pierce) August 26, 2019

"Opt in to automatic sharing, and Threads will regularly update your status, giving your friends a real-time view of information about your location, speed, and more," writes @CaseyNewton for @verge https://t.co/BeOej49rgC

— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) August 26, 2019

y tho https://t.co/wcImy3nScx pic.twitter.com/usMqRXVz7X

— Joseph Cox (@josephfcox) August 27, 2019

Instagram tests Threads app for 'intimate sharing' with close friends https://t.co/3TbQS9AjIx

— TNW (@thenextweb) August 27, 2019

Instagram tests Threads app for 'intimate sharing' with close friends https://t.co/wxXQ2LqEeD

— TNW (@thenextweb) August 27, 2019

‘The Future is Private’. Uhuh Mark. https://t.co/gC9qphKyf0 #socialmedia #faceityouarenotbook pic.twitter.com/p9tfc0JYHa

— brechtjedeleij (@brechtjedeleij) August 27, 2019