Post-publish Reel cover for Instagram — if Meta permits
Sibling to the Facebook request: allow thumbnailUrl on
POST /v1/posts/{postId}/update-metadata for Instagram as well.
Flagging honestly that Meta is the constraint here, not Zernio — IG's Graph API
is much stricter about changing a Reel cover after publishing than Facebook is.
So this is "if Meta permits": whoever scopes it should check whether a cover
change is possible post-publish at all before any work is done.
If it is not possible, saying so in the docs would itself be valuable — right now
instagramThumbnail reads as a publish-time-only field without stating that it
can never be changed afterwards, which is the thing people will assume.
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