API Coming to Threads – Webtekno

Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says his team Threads He announced his new plans regarding. According to the statement, for the microblogging platform that rivals API is being developed. Thus, the content will be further enriched and some deficiencies of the application will be eliminated.

Journalist Casey Newton with another user in Threads Mosseri, who was included in the conversation about the lack of an experience like TweetDeck, said in his post: “We are working on it. My reservation is that it would mean more publisher content and not so much producer content, but it still seems like something we should do.” he said.

Mosseri’s approach to news is different

In his previous statements, Mosseri said that Threads was not against the news, but will not actively try to highlight the news he stated. When we look at the past ties between social media platforms and news, we see that third-party applications are of critical importance for news producers. News producers using third party tools, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook It uses API-connected applications to instantly share on platforms such as. On newer platforms like Threads, they have to share the news themselves. This is not an ideal situation either.

On the other hand, content producers may also need different tools for their posts. Third party apps Thanks to this, they can make some platform-specific arrangements or customize their content differently from platform to platform. For this too API integration is required.

Threads recently increased its monthly user count reached almost 100 million in had explained. While this number of users may increase further thanks to the ecosystem that will emerge if an API is developed, new alternatives will also emerge to explore the platform. In case of integration of Threads with ActivityPub, which is an open media protocol from different platforms It will also be possible to see the posts as they are shared on Threads.