Polls on X, Threads and Mastodon

Write the question as the post text, then open Poll in the options bar of X, Threads or Mastodon and add 2 to 4 answers. On X you choose how long the poll runs, from an hour to 7 days. On Mastodon the choices follow your server, and you can allow several answers per person and hide the totals until the poll ends. Threads closes a poll 24 hours after it is published. The preview shows the poll the way each platform draws it.

A poll replaces the media on that channel: none of the three platforms takes both, so turning a poll on takes the pictures off that channel and leaves the other channels as they are. On a thread the poll goes on the first post. LinkedIn polls work as before.

The results arrive with the post statistics: the post page shows a Poll results card with the share of each answer and the time left.

Through the API, pass poll under x, threads or mastodon on create and update. The Claude and ChatGPT connectors, the CLI and the 8 SDKs take the same field.

Fixed

• An Instagram post that went live was reported as failed - Instagram sometimes answers a publish with "Action blocked" after the post is already on the account. OmniSocials recorded the post as failed, and a retry published it a second time. It now checks your account before it reports a failure: when the post is there, it is kept with its link, and nothing is published twice.
• A false "Reconnect Instagram" - the same answer, and Instagram's rate limits, flagged the connection as expired and sent the reconnect email, although the connection worked. One workspace reconnected Instagram 14 times in five days. A rate limit no longer asks for a reconnect.
• A free month offered while a payment was still open - when the first payment after a trial failed and you then accepted a free month, the free month applied to the month after, while the open payment was collected a few days later. The offer is no longer shown while a payment is open.

Improved

• A caption too long for the destination of a repost automation - until now a caption over the limit was left out without a word up front, or cut without asking. The automation now asks you once: post it as a thread (X, Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads), cut it at a word, or skip the post. The limit follows your account, such as 25,000 characters on X Premium or your Mastodon server's own limit. The Skipped tab shows how many posts were left out for this reason and applies your choice to all of them with one click. You find the setting in the setup of the automation.
• A post the source shared no file for - a reel with licensed music comes without its video, so the automation cannot copy it. The Skipped tab now has "Post it yourself" on such a post: it opens the editor with the caption and every channel that skipped the post filled in, and you add the video.
• The "Next" date of a repost automation - with a long line of posts the date showed the day of the newest import, months away, instead of the next post. It now shows the real next post.