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People 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.
In the past we never had generic names in tech, like windows or apple
It really was a huge L to not have threads.com
The same "L" as not having steam.com
Funny, Meta just went through the same trouble with the name 'Meta'.
Who or what is a meta. Everyone knows what facebook is though.
It's scary when you open Instagram and it says "from Facebook" but meh when it says "from Meta."
Same as reading "business X acquired by Facebook" versus "acquired by Meta."
It's a form of reputation separation. Same thing Google did with Alphabet.
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.
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In the past we never had generic names in tech, like windows or apple
In the 1950s every company was literally called General X. General Electric, General Motors, and General Dynamics are still huge today
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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.
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.