Threads Live Chat Expands to All Community Champions With Moderation Tools

Live Chats on Threads are getting their first meaningful expansion since the feature launched earlier this year, with the platform opening hosting access, adding translation, and giving moderators sharper tools to manage fast-moving conversations.

The biggest structural change is who can actually start a session. At launch, only a small group of creators could host Live Chats. Now Threads is extending that ability to all Community Champions, a tier defined by high activity and strong community engagement. The cap on active participants sits at 150 per session.

Managing a conversation at that scale is a different task than simply starting one. Threads is addressing that by letting hosts invite up to three co-hosts to help keep things moving. Hosts also gained a long-press option to delete messages for everyone in the chat instantly, which is a more direct moderation tool than most social platforms offer at this level.

Translation and visibility tools round out the update

Native translation support is the other headlining addition. Participants can now translate messages directly inside a Live Chat, which matters most during events that draw international audiences. Threads specifically points to something like the World Cup as the kind of moment the feature is built for, where a fast-moving chat might pull in speakers of a dozen languages at once.

The platform is also testing a way to make host messages visually distinct so they do not disappear into the scroll during busy sessions. Pinned messages and desktop support are described as coming next, which suggests the current rollout is more foundation than finished product.

All of the updates apply across iOS and Android. The combination of broader hosting access, co-host delegation, instant message deletion, and translation covers most of the practical complaints anyone running a large public chat would have raised about the original feature.