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Why has everyone on here been comparing Threads to Twitter when threads.com literally says its a Slack alternative for makers? The product has absolutely nothin

Why has everyone on here been comparing Threads to Twitter when threads.com literally says its a Slack alternative for makers? The product has absolutely nothing to do with a Twitter style social network. Edit: lol so FAANG just steals any and all actively used product names now. Got it.

shmde 3y ago
Threads.com != Threads( twitter clone ) by meta
- ianburrell 3y ago
  I think it is branded as Threads by Instagram. One Google Play Store, Threads the chat app has "not affiliated with Threads by Instagram" in their listing. I wonder if they are getting lots of downloads by confused people.
- cmcaleer 3y ago
  A company the size of Facebook can release a new product that they’re trying to eat Twitter’s lunch with and not even buy the dot-com? Crazy.
- amosliberal 3y ago
  Mark zuckerberg has literally built a monopoly of social media, lmao. At this point, since they've acquired such a large amount of users (2 billion), they can release anything and people will use it.
delive 3y ago
The social app uses .net - Threads.net
ipsum2 3y ago
Instagram Threads was a (different) thing back in 2019: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagram-threads-messaging-app-close-friends-snapchat https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagr.... Threads.com looks like it came out in 2022?
- threeseed 3y ago
  a) Meta Threads which is unrelated to Meta, Threads or apps is trademarked in May, 2018. [1] b) Threads.com raises Seed round back in Oct, 2018. [2] c) Meta acquires Meta Threads trademark in Nov, 2021. d) Threads as a trademark itself has been widely used well before Threads.com. [3] [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company... [2] https://trademarks.justia.com/878/42/meta-87842532.html https://trademarks.justia.com/878/42/meta-87842532.html [3] https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=threads https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=threads
  - ipsum2 3y ago
    Not sure how A C, D are relevant, trademarks pertain only to a specific category. Meta Threads was trademarked for luggage and backpacks. It'll be interesting to see if threads.com has a trademark.
    - threeseed 3y ago
      It's more just interesting history. But D is relevant because of course trademarks are highly specific to a category. And so Threads (social network) would be considered different to Threads (business chat).

shmde 3y ago

Threads.com != Threads( twitter clone ) by meta

ianburrell 3y ago
I think it is branded as Threads by Instagram. One Google Play Store, Threads the chat app has "not affiliated with Threads by Instagram" in their listing. I wonder if they are getting lots of downloads by confused people.
cmcaleer 3y ago
A company the size of Facebook can release a new product that they’re trying to eat Twitter’s lunch with and not even buy the dot-com? Crazy.
amosliberal 3y ago
Mark zuckerberg has literally built a monopoly of social media, lmao. At this point, since they've acquired such a large amount of users (2 billion), they can release anything and people will use it.

delive 3y ago

The social app uses .net - Threads.net

ipsum2 3y ago

Instagram Threads was a (different) thing back in 2019: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagram-threads-messaging-app-close-friends-snapchat https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagr.... Threads.com looks like it came out in 2022?

threeseed 3y ago
a) Meta Threads which is unrelated to Meta, Threads or apps is trademarked in May, 2018. [1] b) Threads.com raises Seed round back in Oct, 2018. [2] c) Meta acquires Meta Threads trademark in Nov, 2021. d) Threads as a trademark itself has been widely used well before Threads.com. [3] [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company_financials https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company... [2] https://trademarks.justia.com/878/42/meta-87842532.html https://trademarks.justia.com/878/42/meta-87842532.html [3] https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=threads https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=threads
- ipsum2 3y ago
  Not sure how A C, D are relevant, trademarks pertain only to a specific category. Meta Threads was trademarked for luggage and backpacks. It'll be interesting to see if threads.com has a trademark.
  - threeseed 3y ago
    It's more just interesting history. But D is relevant because of course trademarks are highly specific to a category. And so Threads (social network) would be considered different to Threads (business chat).