Threads has rolled out a fresh set of updates to its live chat feature, introducing co-hosts and new sharing options designed to strengthen community engagement on the platform.
Co-Hosting Comes to Community Chats
All community champions can now create and host live chats, with each chat supporting up to three co-hosts. This allows creators to share moderation duties and discussion management, potentially leading to livelier, better-organized conversations. Co-hosts can help acknowledge participants and encourage broader involvement, addressing one of the platform’s ongoing goals: making community spaces feel more interactive and welcoming.
Sharing and Moderation Get an Upgrade
Threads is also making it easier to amplify live discussions. Chat participants can now post messages from a live chat directly to their main feed, where they appear as a clickable chat link, helping draw more users into ongoing conversations. On the moderation side, hosts can now long-press to delete messages, giving them a faster way to keep discussions civil.
Looking ahead, the Threads team has confirmed it is working on pinned messages and live translation features, both aimed at expanding participation options within chats.
Live chat launched on Threads in April as a way to replicate the spontaneity of old-school Twitter chats, though with some limits: sessions cap out at 150 participants, and hosts control who can actively contribute. While this keeps spam in check, it can also make chats feel less open compared to X’s real-time culture, an area where X has traditionally led. With these new co-hosting and sharing tools, Threads is betting that better-managed, more visible live chats can help it carve out a stronger foothold in real-time social engagement.