Threads Changelog

November 20, 2025

• The follower limit for Threads profile discovery has been decreased from 1,000 to 100. See Retrieve a Threads User's Public Profile Information for more details.

October 28, 2025

Threads Ads

• Advantage+ catalog ads are now available for Threads ads. Only images and image carousels are currently supported. Slideshow, video and entry cards are not supported at this time. See Threads Advantage+ Catalog Ads for more information.

October 17, 2025

• Support for adding GIFs to posts is now available. See GIFs for more information.

October 6, 2025

Threads Ads

• Image carousel can now be used for Threads ads. Placement customization and dynamic media are not supported. See Threads Carousel Ads for more information.

October 3, 2025

• Support for adding spoilers to single or carousel posts containing TEXT, IMAGE, or VIDEO media types is now available. See Spoilers for more information.
• Support for adding a text attachment to a post has been added. See Text Attachments for more details.

September 23, 2025

• The Threads API is now available to Threads profiles without a linked Instagram account. These users can use all Threads API functionalities except for the followers_count and follower_demographics user metrics.

September 9, 2025

• Support for searching for public posts by media type has been added. See Keyword Search for more details.

August 15, 2025

Threads Ads

• Threads ads now supports video ads. See Threads ads creatives: Media requirements for more information.
• Threads has been added as a publisher_platform in the customization_spec for Placement Asset Customization. See Supported Fields in customization_spec for more information.

Webhooks

• Support for publish webhooks has been added. See Webhooks for more details.

August 12, 2025

• The total_votes field was added to poll attachments. See Polls for more details.

August 1, 2025

• Support for delete webhooks has been added. See Webhooks for more details.

July 21, 2025

• The topic_tag field was added to the Media retrieval endpoints.

July 15, 2025

• Support for mentions webhooks has been added. See Webhooks for Threads for more details.

July 14, 2025

• Support for Threads profile discovery has been added. See Retrieve a Threads User's Public Profile Information and Retrieve a List of a Public Profile's Threads for more details.
• Support for creating posts with topic tags via a topic_tag parameter has been added. See Threads Posts for more details.
• Support for Topic Tag Search has been added. The GET /keyword_search endpoint also now supports timestamp filtering using the since and until parameters. See Keyword Search for more details.
• Deletion and location search quotas have been added to the GET me/threads_publishing_limit endpoint. See Troubleshooting for more details.

July 7, 2025

• The is_verified field was added to the User Profile endpoint.
• Two new reply audience options, parent_post_author_only and followers_only, have been added to the Threads Reply Management API.

July 2, 2025

• The clicks metric indicating the number of times a URL was clicked on your Threads posts has been added to the Threads Insights API.

June 25, 2025

• The query limit for keyword search has been changed. See Keyword Search for more details.

June 6, 2025

• The Threads API can be accessed by either graph.threads.com or graph.threads.net.

June 4, 2025

• Support for programmatically debugging access tokens has been added. See Debug Access Tokens for more details.
• Support for automatically publishing text posts has been added. See Publishing for more details.

May 27, 2025

• Support for retrieving Threads location objects by individual ID has been added.
• Support for searching for locations to tag in Threads post has been added.

See Location Tagging for more information.

April 14, 2025

• Support for creating posts with polls has been added. See Polls for more details.

March 6, 2025

• Support for deleting posts has been added. See Delete Posts for more details.

February 13, 2025

• The gif_url field was added to the Media retrieval endpoints.

December 9, 2024

• Support for Keyword Search has been added.
• Return a list of Threads media objects in which a Threads profile has been tagged by another Threads profile. See Mentions for more information.
• Embed the content of Threads posts, such as photos and videos, in other websites. See Embed a Threads Post for more information.
• Use the Threads API Postman Collection to make API calls.

October 28, 2024

• The shares metric indicating the number of shares of your Threads posts has been added to the Threads Insights API.

October 11, 2024

• A hash sign followed by a whole number (i.e. #1) will not be converted into a tag.
• The list of unsupported special characters in tags has been updated.
• See Tags for more details.

October 9, 2024

• Support for quote posts has been added. See Quote Posts for more details.
• Support for reposts has been added. See Reposts for more details.

October 8, 2024

• Additional fields have been added to the Webhook response. See Webhooks for more details.

September 19, 2024

• Carousel posts are now allowed up to 20 images, videos, or a mix of the two.

September 12, 2024

• We made it easier to attach links with Threads API. See Links for more details.

August 21, 2024

• Support for alt text has been added. See Accessibility for more details.

August 15, 2024

• For Threads users who have enabled sharing to the fediverse, eligible posts made to Threads via the Threads API will also be shared to the fediverse starting August 28, 2024.

August 13, 2024

• Webhooks for Threads allow you to receive real-time notifications for the subscribed topics and fields.

August 5, 2024

• The name field was added to the User Profile endpoint.
• Use graph.threads.net/me/replies to fetch all replies for your user. See Retrieve a List of All a User's Replies for more information.

July 23, 2024

• Posts made via the Threads API can be geo-gated to one or more specific countries.

July 12, 2024

• Threads Web Intents for posts and follows are now available.

June 25, 2024

• When fetching media insights on reposts, an empty array is returned.

June 18, 2024

• Threads API is open to all developers, see blog post for more details.
• Docs have been updated to clarify that the since and until parameters are not supported when fetching the followers_count metric on the /{threads-user-id}/threads_insights endpoint.

June 17, 2024

• Authorization, Permissions, and Threads User Access Tokens sections updated for threads.net domain and Threads Tester section added to Get Started.
• Get Access Tokens and Permissions and Long-Lived Tokens docs added.
• To access the Threads API, create an app and pick the Threads Use Case.

June 12, 2024

• With the threads_basic and threads_read_replies permissions, users can query the reply_audience field to see who can reply to their previously published posts.

June 7, 2024

• The domain for API calls is now graph.threads.net. All API calls to graph.threads.net should use v1.0. In order to use graph.threads.net, you will need to obtain a Threads access token.
• Reply Management and Insights have been added to the Reference page.

May 21, 2024

• The since and until parameters on the user insights endpoint do not work for dates before April 13, 2024 (Unix timestamp 1712991600).
• A Threads profile must have at least 100 followers in order to fetch values for the follower_demographics metric.
• When requesting follower demographics, the breakdown parameter must be provided and must be set equal to one of the following values: country, city, age, or gender.
• Updated the possible values of the hide_status field on replies: NOT_HUSHED, UNHUSHED, HIDDEN, COVERED, BLOCKED, RESTRICTED.

May 15, 2024

• Removed REPOST_FACADE as one of the possible values for the media_type field on replies.

May 2, 2024

• Deprecated status code on media builder endpoint.

May 1, 2024

• Users can query the is_reply_owned_by_me field to determine which replies are owned by their user and which replies are owned by other users.

April 26, 2024

• Launch of User Level Insights.

April 18, 2024

• The permalink and username fields can now be fetched on replies made by public users and your own user.

April 8, 2024

• Threads API documentation was made publicly available. See the blog post for more details.