Rumor has it: Does Threads prohibit commercial activities? What is the truth? Will personal business accounts be deleted?

Threads prohibits business practices, and many people worry about whether this means that their business accounts will be deleted. However, Meta's social platforms, whether Facebook, Instagram, or Threads, have not banned the company's line from running fan pages. From the context of the terms of use, Threads should prohibit the purchase of powder, traffic, etc. to use the Threads service as a commercial service. In addition, the official advertising field of Threads has also begun to appear.

What is the definition of commercial purpose in the Terms of Service for Threads?

Threads Terms of Use Article 1, Section 3: a. You agree that you shall not, and shall not cause or permit any third party to engage in or attempt to engage in any of the following actions related to your use of the Threads services:

Use the Threads service for any commercial purposes.

Introduce any viruses, trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other malicious or technically harmful materials into our system.

Evade, remove, alter, disable, reduce, or prevent any technical measures or content protection for the Threads service.

Using any robot programs, web spiders, web crawlers, scraping tools, or other automated devices, processes, software, or queries that interfere with, "mine," scrape, access, or otherwise access the Threads service to monitor, extract, copy, or collect information or data from the Threads service, or to perform any manual processes to do the same.

Is Threads prohibiting commercial activities? What is prohibited is the act of buying traffic.

Despite the reference to "exploiting the Threads service for any commercial purpose", it seems that Threads prohibits the commercialization of practices such as buying powder. These business practices are, in fact, exceptional use of Threads' functionality. For the company line number of the general normal business account, it should not be affected. Meta's social platforms, whether Facebook, Instagram, or Threads, have not banned companies from operating fan pages.

Does Threads also have an advertising feature?

Interestingly, Threads has now introduced an advertising mechanism, with ad placements currently limited to between users' posts. It was first reported last summer that Threads was testing advertising features.

(Is Meta's Last Sanctuary at Risk? Threads is reportedly testing its advertising business, will it be flooded with ads? )

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