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Meta said today that it finally launched its much - awaited API for Threads so developers can establish experiences around it .
Mark Zuckerbergposted about the API launching , saying , “ The Threads API is now widely uncommitted and coming to more of you soon . ”
In a web log post , Threads engineer Jesse Chen say that with the newfangled API , developer can publish post , fetch their own content , and deploy reply management tool . That means developer can allow users hide / unhide or respond to specific replies .
pee the Threads API announcement at the Cannes Festival , the company sum that along with these feature film , it will also allow developers to tap into analytics with measurements such as the turn of views , likes , replies , reposts , and quotes at the medium and account level .
Instagram head Adam Mosseri alsoposted about the announcement , say that this move will avail “ businesses and creators oversee their thread presence at scale . ”
In October 2023 , Mosseri mentionedthe party ’s work on the Threads API for the first time . The companylaunched the API in a closed betawith partners such as Sprinklr , Sprout Social , Social News Desk , Hootsuite , tech newsworthiness board Techmeme and a few other developers . At that clock time , Chen said that Meta plans to make the API widely available to developer in June . The caller has deport on the promise .
With the new API launch , the company has also releaseda reference open germ app on GitHub for developer to play around with .
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Third - political party developersbuilding social networking tools faced a tough 2023 , with social networks like Twitter ( now X ) and Reddit restricting or shut down API access at different levels . Decentralized societal networks such as Mastodon and Bluesky have taken a more developer - favorable approach . But Meta ’s Threads is the biggest young social electronic web with more than 150 million drug user . With Threads integrate with the fediverse and releasing an API , it give a luck to third - party developer to build some great social medium experience .
