Threads Profile Can Only Be Deleted by Deleting Instagram Account
Threads, Meta’s Twitter rival, requires an Instagram account for onboarding… and deleting a Threads account requires deleting the linked Instagram account.
It's a trap: Twitter 'copycat' Threads won't let you delete your account unless you also delete Instagramhttps://t.co/367jQvDXjf
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) July 7, 2023
Basically, if you ever want to delete your Threads account, you’ll have to be willing to delete the linked Instagram account as well.
In a Supplemental Privacy Policy, Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.”
The rationale, Meta elaborates on the policy page, is that a Threads profile is part of the user’s Instagram account.
People are realizing Threads is just a censorship platform and trying to delete their accounts
But they can’t
Zuck tethered it to your Instagram so if you delete one, both get deleted
Everyone signing up must stay
Like a digital Berlin Wallhttps://t.co/O0I08WtoWS
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) July 6, 2023
You can’t delete your threads account without deleting your instagram too pic.twitter.com/rbbD4vUN5i
— Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) July 6, 2023
The discovery of this stipulation perplexed many users who had not been warned beforehand.
So my Instagram has looked like this (left) for two days and now I delete threads cause I tried everything else and now I’m locked out of my account (right). It won’t send me a code to my number nor let me login on any other device. @instagram please do something. pic.twitter.com/B9EvMFY1P0
— joshmeitz (@joshmeitz) July 9, 2023
The fact that they’re just porting over pre-existing IG users and treating them as new users is so flawed. CEO concedes Threads & IG are the same platform (which is why you can’t delete it without deleting IG because it’s one account) pic.twitter.com/F9pXNnvlhA
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) July 9, 2023