Threads by Meta is now rolling out real-time public chats
Live Chats on Threads bring people together in real-time public conversations during cultural moments—games, events, and launches. Join, react, vote in polls, and engage with creators as it unfolds, making shared experiences more interactive and alive.
What it is: Live Chats is a public group chat feature on Threads, designed to run during cultural events like live sports games or album drops.
Most social feeds are bad at the moment of live events. Posts scroll past, reactions are scattered, and there's no coherent group conversation happening alongside what you're watching. Threads Live Chats is designed specifically for that gap, with chats anchored to a scheduled event, not just a trending topic.
What makes it different from standard group chats: these are public and discoverable, hosted by creators or Community Champions, and built with live-event tooling baked in. Real-time polls, typing indicators, countdowns, and live game scores keep the chat in sync with what's actually happening. If the chat fills up, you can still watch, react, and vote.
Hosts can schedule a chat, name it, set start and end times, and share it to their Threads feed and Instagram Story. That cross-surface distribution is actually useful for getting people into the same room at the same time.
Key features:
Public group chats discoverable in Community feeds
Real-time polls, countdowns, typing indicators, and live scores
Profile ring indicator when a host is live
Schedulable with cross-posting to Instagram Stories
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About Live Chats on Threads on Product Hunt
“Threads by Meta is now rolling out real-time public chats ”
Live Chats on Threads launched on Product Hunt on April 23rd, 2026 and earned 75 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #25 on the daily leaderboard. Live Chats on Threads bring people together in real-time public conversations during cultural moments—games, events, and launches. Join, react, vote in polls, and engage with creators as it unfolds, making shared experiences more interactive and alive.
On the analytics side, Live Chats on Threads competes within Events, Social Media and Tech news — topics that collectively have 97.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Live Chats on Threads performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Live Chats on Threads?
Live Chats on Threads was hunted by Rohan Chaubey and Kumar Abhishek. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Live Chats on Threads including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Rohan Chaubey,
Kumar Abhishek
Threads just added Live Chats, and the implementation is more structured than it looks on the surface.
What it is: Live Chats is a public group chat feature on Threads, designed to run during cultural events like live sports games or album drops.
Most social feeds are bad at the moment of live events. Posts scroll past, reactions are scattered, and there's no coherent group conversation happening alongside what you're watching. Threads Live Chats is designed specifically for that gap, with chats anchored to a scheduled event, not just a trending topic.
What makes it different from standard group chats: these are public and discoverable, hosted by creators or Community Champions, and built with live-event tooling baked in. Real-time polls, typing indicators, countdowns, and live game scores keep the chat in sync with what's actually happening. If the chat fills up, you can still watch, react, and vote.
Hosts can schedule a chat, name it, set start and end times, and share it to their Threads feed and Instagram Story. That cross-surface distribution is actually useful for getting people into the same room at the same time.
Key features:
Public group chats discoverable in Community feeds
Real-time polls, countdowns, typing indicators, and live scores
Profile ring indicator when a host is live
Schedulable with cross-posting to Instagram Stories
P.S. I hunt the latest and greatest launches in tech, SaaS and AI, follow to be notified → @rohanrecommends