In the ongoing race to reinvent features every other platform has had since 2013, Threads has proudly announced its latest breakthrough: invite links for group chats. Yes, the feature your middle-school group project probably used before Instagram even existed is now being celebrated as progress.
According to Meta, this new option will “make it easier” to bring people into your group chats. Basically, Threads has finally realized that inviting 12 people one by one is a crime against humanity.
Inside your Threads inbox, you can now tap your way through a few menus, summon a brand-new invite link, and ship it off to anyone you think deserves entry into your community, drama, or chaos.
Threads describes the process like it’s rocket science: “Open your Threads inbox, start a new message, tap ‘Create group chat,’ then ‘Create with link.’ Name the chat. Copy the link. To invite people later, tap the three-dot menu, select ‘Invite link,’ turn it on. Only admins can make links. Anyone can share them.”
Thank you, Threads, for explaining a link like it’s a rare gemstone requiring a PhD in Linkology.
Admins also get veto power over anyone who tries to join, which makes sense.
Sarcasm aside, this will absolutely help Threads build group chats faster. When Meta isn’t busy merging and unmerging messaging platforms to keep regulators guessing, it occasionally releases a feature that genuinely improves user experience.
(Unlike Threads, he didn’t need a multi-billion-dollar company to invent a link.)
Threads added its own DM inbox in July, after months of insisting people should message through Instagram instead, a choice about as convenient as mailing yourself a letter to send a text.
Meta originally resisted adding DMs because it was still chasing its dream of The One Messaging Backend to Rule Them All. That fantasy hit a speed bump thanks to the FTC, which was worried Meta might weld its apps together like an AI-powered Frankenstein. But Meta won the case, which means Threads finally gets to grow up and have its own messaging system.
Threads group chats can host up to 50 people, which is just the right number for productive conversation or a complete meltdown, depending on who you invite via your shiny new link.
And now that the invites are easier to share, this feature could become a bigger part of Threads’ identity as it claws its way toward being a real social platform and not just the place we all ran to during one of Elon’s “creative” updates.
In short: Threads added invite links. It’s not groundbreaking. It’s not earth-shattering. But it is useful, and frankly, it’s about time.
