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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Being able to use the same credentials for logging in is something else than creating a public profile for users that never signed up for the service.

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but they don’t create a public profile for users that don’t sign up? it uses the same handle as your Instagram. If you never activate Threads then nothing happens with your IG username on Threads

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I did not try Threads so I do not know. The post suggests that your user handle appears as a suggestion of a profile to follow for other people even if you never signed up.

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Yes. It does. Much like every other site when you inject a contacts information. It will ask if you want to follow them when they sign up.

That’s literally all this is.

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