Threads announces plans to make its API widely accessible by June

Today, Meta-owned social network Threads announced that it will make its API broadly available to developers by June.

Engineer Jesse Chen revealed that the company has been developing the API over the past few months. Currently, the API enables users to authenticate, publish threads, and retrieve the content they post using these tools.

“Over the past few months, we’ve been building the Threads API to empower creators, developers, and brands to manage their Threads presence at scale and easily share fresh, new ideas with their communities from their favorite third-party applications,” he stated.

Chen further mentioned that Threads is collaborating with a limited number of partners, including social tools like Sprinklr, Sprout Social, Social News Desk, Hootsuite, tech news board Techmeme, and a few other developers.

He also noted that Threads aims to enhance the APIs with additional capabilities for moderation and insights gathering.

Last October, Instagram head Adam Mosseri initially confirmed that the social platform was developing an API to support third-party experiences. At that time, Chen had indicated that the company would begin working on a content publishing endpoint. While new capabilities have been added to the API, it remains uncertain whether this will enable developers to create third-party clients for a different Threads experience.

Over the years, social networks have imposed increasingly stringent restrictions on access to user data for developers, which has hindered the growth of the third-party app ecosystem for social platforms.