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> You can't expect to waltz in to that arena, zero plan and expect your "Meta" backing to carry you Are you still talking about the name choice, or the busines
by afterburner 3y ago
> You can't expect to waltz in to that arena, zero plan and expect your "Meta" backing to carry you
Are you still talking about the name choice, or the business in general? Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back it certainly does help.
- joduplessis 3y ago> Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back is certainly does help. Copying a very popular product.... that doesn't depend on a social aspect. Copying social products is way different to copying Excel, etc.
- MikusR 3y agoReddit coppied and replaced digg a popular product that depends on social aspect. Excel is still Excel.
- afterburner 3y agoThreads user count immediately completely dwarfed any other Twitter clones. Same with number of active users, which is already half of Twitter's count, according to one article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-monthly-users-data-x-twitter https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-mon... Even if these numbers are moderately inaccurate, Threads is still a smashing success given the time frame. The copying seems to have gone very well. Don't forget they were piggy backing off their own successful social media app, Instagram.