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Threads

TryPost publishes posts and ghost posts to Threads.

Connect your account

  1. In the sidebar, open Channels and click Connect channel (or use New > Connect a new channel)
  2. Choose Threads and click Connect Threads
  3. Authorize TryPost on Threads
  4. On the confirmation page, check the account and click Finish connection
TryPost opens the new channel’s Publish page and asks how many times a week you want to post. See Connecting channels for the full flow.

Supported content types

Media limits

Edit Media offers the crop presets 1:1, 4:5 and 1.91:1. Official specs: Overview, Posts. Full catalog: Media.

Text and per-post options

  • 500 characters per post.
  • Topic — tag the post with a topic (meta.topic_tag): 1 to 50 characters after a leading # is dropped, without . or &.
  • Link preview — Threads always shows a preview card for the first link; it cannot be removed.
  • Alt text — up to 1,000 characters per image.

Insights

Threads posts and followers appear in Insights.

OAuth scopes

threads_basic, threads_content_publish, threads_manage_insights threads_manage_insights powers post and account metrics in Insights.

Self-hosting setup

  1. Go to Meta for Developers and create an app
  2. Add the Threads product
  3. Request the scopes above in the app’s permissions section
  4. Set the redirect URL to {APP_URL}/accounts/threads/callback
  5. Add to your .env:
Hide Threads with THREADS_ENABLED=false.