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Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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Who or what is a meta. Everyone knows what facebook is though.

As 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.

Same 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.

Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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In the past we never had generic names in tech, like windows or apple

Indeed. Nothing is as specific as that disk operating system.

Someone should start a company to sell business machines internationally.

Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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post #19

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Who or what is a meta. Everyone knows what facebook is though.

Just like everyone knows Google but never heard of Alphabet

That'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.

Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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post #23

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Indeed. Nothing is as specific as that disk operating system.

Someone should start a company to sell business machines internationally.

Would be smart if they broke into integrated electronics.

Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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I’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.

Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

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I don't see a ton of actual people or friends posting on there. I do see a ton of brands, though.

I’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.

Re: Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge

#30
post #23

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Someone should start a company to sell business machines internationally.

Would be smart if they broke into integrated electronics.

Some savvy capitalist should start a shipping company and name it after a country in the east
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