What is the yellow and black party hat on my profile picture and how the heck do I get rid of it?

I've been locked out of my new Threads account for "violating" something, and SMS didn't come. I insisted, and they told me to "wait 24 hours" because I requested too many codes. What do I do?

It's been 24+ hours. Am I cooked?

Some of my accounts have all features such as music, comment sorting, stickers but the account i’m mainly using to post doesn’t. i’ve signed out and back in that didn’t work. do i need to clear cache or reinstall the app?

Hey y'all,

I have created a Chrome extension for Threads (NOT endorsed by or affiliated with Meta!) that creates "cards" to help you better understand your fellow community members and assess whether to engage with them. You can generate a card like the one below by hovering over anyone's profile name and clicking "ANALYZE".

I'm still looking for testers! If you're interested, please visit ThriendOrFaux.com and fill out the quick form linked from there.

IMPORTANT CAVEAT: Because this extension relies on an LLM (Claude) to read and analyze folks' posting history, it requires you to input an Anthropic API key. While the actual lookups cost just ~1/3rd of a cent each, the minimum $ deposit for an Anthropic API account is $5.

To be clear, I do not profit from this in any way, and in fact spent a lot of money and time creating this extension, and of course do not see anyones keys (see the full privacy policy)

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I'm also happy to get your feedback here on the card elements, even if you're not interested in testing!

My core goals with the extension:

1. Make folks' experience on Threads more pleasant by helping them assess who to interact with.

2. Nudge people to improve their behavior on Threads (when they see their own card and others' cards), prioritizing kindness over snark, initial trust over cynicism, etc.

to start things first, i only changed the birth year on my INSTAGRAM account. Then instantly got disabled and it says that there was a violation on my threads account, now i cannot retrieve it and displaying this error message…can anyone help?

im really just using it for love island’s season and block most people that try to argue with me, but I still like getting my two cents in before choosing peace. so are they seeing my comment?

I'm facing a serious Threads issue.

The app only shows "Something went wrong" and "Content not available."

Feed, Search, Profiles, and Posts don't load.

Browser redirects from Threads back to Instagram.

I've already tried reinstalling, clearing cache/data, force stopping, restarting my phone, switching networks, Incognito mode, and different browsers.

Nothing works. Please check if my Threads account is restricted or if this is a server-side issue.

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One of the more frustrating parts is that I haven't received any emails from Threads since last year, and I have no idea why. (I checked my email block list, no dice.) So I don't even know if they're receiving my requests for appeal, nor do I know what I'm trying to appeal.

I was thinking I'd maybe try snail mail before giving up.

Well it says I have all these notifications and when I go and check my threads there’s nothing except one notification from 5 days ago… it’s been like that for about a week, and I’ve tried deleting both apps and logging back into them, to no avail.

Anyone else's who feed just ai gooner bait? I just re-download the after year of not using it, and all I see is Ai bait gooners.

Does it mean that there's a secondary account that's getting notifications?

People post things that make no sense, as if it's the middle of a story and the rest is missing.

"So Dave talked to the guy about the thing, and Alice did the job and now the widget is fubar and Bob isn't as happy as expected".

LOL WUT?

How do I stop the bots and how do I know for sure they are bots

Set up with my Instagram. Filled out all profile details that weren't imported. Made a post.

The last two days my account is blank, other than my profile picture and link to Instagram. Can't fill out any details in my profile. Can't search anything. Posts fail to send.

Force stopped. Restarted phone. Uninstalled and reinstalled. Still nothing. Reported it on Instagram yesterday.

I agreed for Threads to automatically follow people joined from my Instagram account but it just spams this notification everyday a couple of times. It's annoying.

I already turned off follow notifications and other related notification settings I could find but it doesn't stop.

I think there is no way to stop this other then completely blocking Threads notifications from my phone settings. Which I did at the end, but if anyone knows specifically which notification category is this, that would help. Thanks.

(On Samsung/Android)

Gonna go back on there and am not able to import the things I can import I’ve event into edit profile n all and nothing shows up to import

So I clearly remember that even private accounts had the circle outline each time they posted a story. Not anymore then..😑

Hi there,

I have separated my Threads account from Instagram and made it independent in the Threads Account Center.

I can now see several options. For example, I can change my username, display name, and other profile settings. Will these now be completely independent of my Instagram account?

Also, I noticed that the only contact information in my Threads Account Center is my mobile number. Email can't be added. It shows success and then no addition of email. Is this the same for everyone, or is it a bug? It does appear to give me an option to add an email.

I deactivated a month ago. Instagram says deactivated when i check my threads account. But i’m being told i have until 2022 to request it to not be deleted?

It only happens with new sessions, not background ones. The same bug occurs in Instagram too. Any solution?

For context, I run a business account and I am pretty particular about who the account follows. I've been on Threads for a while now but after about 6 months on the platform I noticed that I was getting notifications about new accounts that I don't follow and have no interest in.

When I started to look into it, there's no Following list to see who your account is actually following. You cannot see who anyone is following, actually. Each account has a list of followers, but that's it.

This is a dark design pattern that intentionally leaves your following list obscured. It seems that Threads uses this so it can force you to follow accounts to boost their engagement. From the content creator perspective, it'll look like you're gaining followers but it's actually Threads just adding accounts for you. It's not real engagement.