several Threads Users On the iOS app mentioned Earlier today, they saw a new “Most Recent” option to sort search results on the new social network.
However, the company told TechCrunch that the feature was just an internal prototype and was rolled out in error.
“Earlier today, an internal prototype was mistakenly made available to a small number of people, and this is not something we are testing externally at this time,” they said in a statement.
In November, Instagram head Adam Mosseri clarified that Threads does not have an option to search for the latest results as it will create “Security gap”.
“To be clear, having a comprehensive list of every post containing a particular word in chronological order inevitably means spammers and other bad actors attack the display with content by simply adding relevant words or tags,” Mosseri said at the time. “And before you ask why we don’t remove this bad content, realize that there is a lot more content that people don’t want to see than we can or should remove.”
He added that it was possible to display the results in chronological order, but the social network would then need to weed out poor-quality content.
Threads first began testing the ability to search posts in Australia and New Zealand in August 2023. In September last year, Meta rolled out search in almost all English- and Spanish-speaking countries where the social network was available. In December, the company expanded search to all languages and will launch in the European Union later in the month.