Journalists are massively misunderstanding what the 'Threads API' actually is.
It's not for third-party clients, it's for automation & marketing. You can’t access a timeline via the API, or do search, or anything like that. It's for posting, reading replies, and replying to replies of a post. Bots and CRMs
"You may use the Threads API to enable people to create and publish content on a person’s behalf on Threads, and to display those posts within your app solely to the person who created it.”
Steve Troughton-Smith /
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2024-06-18 14:05:26
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