Getting around
A map of the app: what each surface is for, and where it lives.
- Home
- Your feed. For You is ranked, Following is newest-first from accounts you follow.
- Explore
- Discovery by topic, plus people search.
- Trending
- What is moving right now, and the hashtag leaderboard.
- Shorts
- Vertical video, full screen, one at a time.
- Spaces
- Communities built around a subject.
- Messages
- Direct messages, group threads, requests, and starred messages.
- Notifications
- Likes, replies, follows, reposts, mentions, and system notices.
- Bookmarks
- Posts you saved, optionally auto-organised into folders.
- Lists
- Feeds you assemble by hand from accounts you choose. See Lists.
- Sounds
- The audio library, and every Short using a given track.
- Map
- Posts placed by location, and accounts near you, once you share your location. See The map.
- Dashboard
- Your analytics, growth, and content performance.
- Settings
- Everything configurable, grouped into Preferences, Privacy and People, Account, and Creator.
Search
Search covers posts, people, Spaces, sounds and hashtags. With Semantic Search enabled it matches by meaning rather than exact words, and Visual Search takes a photo as the query. See Search and Ask.
Your profile
Your profile and Settings both sit behind your avatar. A profile carries your posts, replies, media, Shorts and pinned posts, and up to five links.