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Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge
- Yhippa 3y agoI don't see a ton of actual people or friends posting on there. I do see a ton of brands, though.
- stn8188 3y agoIs there a way to see corporate brands on the Slack-alternative-Threads, or is this comment about the Twitter-alternative-Threads?
- nemo44x 3y agoI’m guessing they’ve given brands that advertise on FB and IG various promotions if they post to Threads to create the illusion that someone is actually using it.
- TheCaptain4815 3y agoPlus NSFW content is banned and moderation is much heavier handed than Twitter. This seems like a ploy to get people addicted to the algorithm but in 'Threads' fashion. Twitter may have an advantage if people perceive it to be a more 'realistic' portrayal.
- zerbinxx 3y agoA lot of people use instagram where NSFW content is banned. Most people wouldn’t post or look at NSFW content online if it was related back to their IRL selves. There’s certainly a big niche for a “more wholesome web”. While I think it’s goofy to expect the entire web to operate like this, I kind of like that I won’t be inundated with porn, videos of people getting killed/maimed, etc. when I’m scrolling on some social media apps.
- TheCaptain4815 3y agoI’m the complete opposite. Obviously no one enjoys spam, but I want real human content. YouTube comments are even more useless now as it’s all just happy happy joy joy from the algorithm.
- katamarimambo 3y agoI definitively get videos of people getting killed/maimed on my instagram feed despite using the "not interested" option every time they show me this stuff.
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- gtk40 3y agoI can't tell if you're talking about OP's link or to the unrelated but same named product.
- fredgrott 3y agoMaybe Mark could brand rename to .... ElonsLunch
- zelphirkalt 3y agoMaybe he would accept that idea for the name of another offspring.
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- josteink 3y agoI’m sure the geo-restrictions placed upon the app, only making it available in the US and a few other select countries are contributing to this. There may be -no- official IG Threads app in the AppStore when curious minds go searching.
- anothermoron 3y agoYea It took some time before I had it available in the PlayStore here in Canada after the release, but the app from this article had updated their description saying they are not related to META Threads.
- vitorgrs 3y agoHm? Threads is available in all countries except EU (and China I guess).
- tomrod 3y agoIt's dumb. Needs a web interface. Hard pass without the ability to block adds or export data.
- ec109685 3y agoReminds me of how the $ZOOM stock kept shooting up whenever ZM was in the news: https://securityboulevard.com/2020/04/investors-buy-up-the-wrong-zoom/ https://securityboulevard.com/2020/04/investors-buy-up-the-w...
- m3kw9 3y agoThis is an actual play book strategy in good times
- dist-epoch 3y agoHappened to me. They say something like "this is similar to slack, not a social network", but it still seemed like a plausible description of the FB Threads. They should be more explicit: "THIS IS NOT FACEBOOK/INSTAGRAM THREADS".
- Valodim 3y agoYou say "they should", but man does that sound like an annoying thing to have to do to your product...
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- ayewo 3y agoDoes anyone remember Clubhouse? Clubhouse the social audio app at clubhouse.com ? The sudden popularity of clubhouse.com overshadowed clubhouse.io forcing the latter to rename to shortcut.com. https://www.shortcut.com/blog/clubhouses-name-is-now-shortcut# https://www.shortcut.com/blog/clubhouses-name-is-now-shortcu...
- pjot 3y agoIt was super confusing the first few times I heard it mentioned when I switched to a new company. Now their name and logo are similar to apples shortcuts.app and news.app
- brundolf 3y agoSlightly OT, but we used this at my last company and it was a delight. Very much a "what if Jira were good" dream-product
- dysoco 3y agoSame, after that I migrated to using Jira at another company and was a pain in comparison.
- 1270018080 3y agoJust looks like a more expensive and less feature rich version of slack?
- malephex 3y agoI hate Elon so much that I'm willing to help Zuck steal more of my private data ... sigh.
- akomtu 3y agoan elegant summary of american politics in 2023
- ClosedPistachio 3y agoFunny, Meta just went through the same trouble with the name 'Meta'.
- ikekkdcjkfke 3y agoWho or what is a meta. Everyone knows what facebook is though.
- srgpqt 3y agoJust like everyone knows Google but never heard of Alphabet
- hfkwer 3y agoThat's the goal. This way headlines will read "meta/alphabet fined $X million for selling user data to cartels/illuminati" and nobody will know WTF this is about because they'd need to read the article to learn it's the parent company of Facebook/Google.
- benreesman 3y agoAs a former employee with a decade in the shop and as much inside baseball as anyone could expect: I have no fucking idea what the Meta name change was about.
- Outright0133 3y agoSame thing as Google -> Alphabet Lack of regulation leads to a giant megacorp buying up corporations to grow even bigger. They used to call it trust busting.
- furyofantares 3y ago> I have no fucking idea what the Meta name change was about. Forget about the metaverse, it seems like it was a good change to me, just to not be named Facebook. I can tell Meta has a much more positive association in my mind than Facebook (the company). Probably because I associate it with Instagram as strongly as I do with Facebook, and "insta" is still considered kinda cool. People are having fun on Threads, and somehow zuck seems to be considered cool there. I never would have expected it. I see Instagram mentioned there, I see zuck mentioned there, sometimes I see Meta mentioned there, and I don't know if I've ever seen Facebook mentioned there. The branding seems to have allowed Threads to have mostly its own branding with strong association with Instagram given the slick onboarding and graph copying, and no real association with Facebook.
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- throwaway1777 3y agoIt really was a huge L to not have threads.com
- cmcaleer 3y agoSuch a bizarre decision too. This is the best chance Meta had to eat Twitter's lunch and obviously the branding is going to make-or-break that. With the massive +EV potential that represents, and the value provided by owning a .com (as demonstrated by the amount of confusion from people going to threads.com), does it not seem obviously worth it to negotiate extensively with Threads.com for them to rebrand and sell them the .com? It's not going to get cheaper for them if Threads does indeed eat Twitter's lunch.
- wlonkly 3y agoPeople aren't going to _any_ URL, they're opening the app called "Threads".
- cmcaleer 3y agoDid Tiktok stay a mobile app forever? It's just common sense to have your url and eventually serve desktop
- wlonkly 3y agoOn one hand, I agree with you. On the other hand, it's common sense for a photography-and-video oriented social media site to support tablets, and yet there's still no iPad Instagram app! (Although there is a minimal browser version.) From that perspective it would not surprise me if they end up staying app-only, as weird as that seems.
- CharlesW 3y agoIf 100 million sign-ups in five days is losing, I don't want to win.
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- readthenotes1 3y agoWell, now I am wondering what the reports of threads user base plummeting means....
- CharlesW 3y agoIt means the record-breaking sign-up boom has tapered off, and user behavior is evolving from "hello world" mania to more normal usage patterns. > Between July 6 and July 12, figures provided to TechCrunch from Data.ai indicate that Threads had more than 880,000 downloads globally on iOS alone, having had “few downloads” prior to this point. It also means that Meta calling their Twitter-killer "Threads" is the best thing that could've happened to threads.com, which was (at best) not thriving.
- account-5 3y agoLooks like meta might have to change the name if the other threads owns the trademark, that or pay for the name. That clearly this is proof the two products are getting confused by would-be users.
- ec109685 3y agoInstagram had a threads product previously, so I am sure they have figured out if they are allowed to name it Threads or not: https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threads-shutting-down-meta-messaging https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787783/instagram-threa...
- jaggirs 3y agoThey also took the "Meta" trademark from an existing augmented reality company. I believe that company decided to sue facebook. I think facebook probably just doesn't care and will just settle any possible lawsuits or something.
- dchest 3y agoThere's no US trademark for "Threads", but somebody submitted an application for it on Jul. 07, 2023 for... Next Computer Inc. Hmm! https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98075358&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98075358&caseType=SERIAL_... According to Delaware filing, this "Next Computer Inc." was incorporated 12/14/2020.
- cmcaleer 3y ago> For: Downloadable computer application software for mobile phones, namely, software for providing access to information, advice, food and exercise databases and calculation tools including a interval timer, covering the field of diet, weight loss, diet planning and lifestyle wellness, and intermittent fasting Lol, I wonder if they had a generic dieting app ready to go so they could jump on any new brand name that they could grab the 'downloadable software' mark for.
- humanrebar 3y agoThere is trademark common law that covers unregistered trademarks. I am not a lawyer, so I won't comment on how or if it applies on this case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark
- paxys 3y agoPeople wanting to download a Twitter clone and downloading a Slack clone by mistake. Both with a bland generic name. Describes the state of tech pretty well right now.