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Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

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[–] ttmrichter 82 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah. The Google+ approach to signing up "users".

[–] dan1101 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah all that mess with Google+ and all that came out of it was we lost the + operator in Google Search.

[–] melonpunk 3 points 1 year ago

Added to my circle!

[–] wwaxwork 3 points 1 year ago

But you can't close your threads account without closing your instagram account.