Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
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Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
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#3For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)
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#4i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too
what was threads.com?
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#5For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not.
Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused.
But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.
Re: Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
#6For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)
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#7i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too what was threads.com?
Here is a snapshot of threads.com from a few months ago:
It says:
> Threads is a workplace communications tool.
> Designed for teams of...
and then:
> Threads are made up of blocks, arranged to organize ideas.
> In 4 easy steps, we'll show you how to use them to share updates, meeting notes, plans, documents, announcements, questions, and presentations.
Further down are some images of a workplace messenger that looks like somewhere between an email client and Slack.
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#8i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too what was threads.com?
It was a clone of Slack:
https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlN...
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#9For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not. Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused. But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.
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#10Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.