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Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by totetsu »

fastball wrote: post #2

Well done on the mildly confusing post. For people that come straight to the comments – Threads was also what Instagram called a standalone messaging app that they introduced in 2019 and never took off. They shut it down at the end of 2021, which is what this article references. Apparently they've re-designed it a bit (or started over from scratch) to turn it into a Twitter competitor now that Twitter is a bit... tur…

Here is an announcement of its relaunch as a messaging app. https://archive.is/jTKuL

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by yawnxyz »

jug wrote: post #25

Weird how it was running on the same network with the same name, but not filling the same purpose. So this is really more just a curiosity. It would have been much stranger if Threads was actually the same thing and now relaunched.

20 years in the future, Instagram Threads, in its 5th iteration, will become Instagram for Knitting, following (and desperately copying) the meteoric rise of decacorn Ravelry

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by _thisdot »

dmonitor wrote: post #18
jaroniscaring wrote: post #7

The end of the old Threads was such a blow to me, it was the perfect Digital Minimalism app for using Instagram's DMs to stay in touch with a circle of college friends.

was it not just a snapchat clone?

Lot more limited than Snapchat. You could only text your Close Friends. There wasn’t any concept of “streaks”. You couldn’t follow celebs or news.

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by _thisdot »

totetsu wrote: post #22
fastball wrote: post #2

Well done on the mildly confusing post. For people that come straight to the comments – Threads was also what Instagram called a standalone messaging app that they introduced in 2019 and never took off. They shut it down at the end of 2021, which is what this article references. Apparently they've re-designed it a bit (or started over from scratch) to turn it into a Twitter competitor now that Twitter is a bit... tur…

Here is an announcement of its relaunch as a messaging app. https://archive.is/jTKuL

I’m even more confused now. I’ve used the old Threads until the day it died (quit Instagram after that actually). Wasn’t it always a messaging app?

Re: Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)

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Post by isykt »

yawnxyz wrote: post #16
fastball wrote: post #2

Well done on the mildly confusing post. For people that come straight to the comments – Threads was also what Instagram called a standalone messaging app that they introduced in 2019 and never took off. They shut it down at the end of 2021, which is what this article references. Apparently they've re-designed it a bit (or started over from scratch) to turn it into a Twitter competitor now that Twitter is a bit... tur…

Seems like they keep restarting and testing new things and failing. I was looking into Threads and there's all these variations, and this one's probably going to suffer the same fate. BUT, we shouldn't knock them for trying; that's what startups are all about, right?

> BUT, we shouldn't knock them for trying; that's what startups are all about, right?

I am so conflicted about this sentiment. On the one hand, I’m a fan of competition. On another, I dislike the company that is (re-?)entering the market.

I guess I just wish an actual start up were coming in, but I guess that era is over. Consolidation has been successful, and now we’re in this weird world where 5-10 giant megacorps run everything we engage with.

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