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Why has everyone on here been comparing Threads to Twitter when threads.com literally says its a Slack alternative for makers? The product has absolutely nothing to do with a Twitter style social network.

Edit: lol so FAANG just steals any and all actively used product names now. Got it.

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Instagram Threads was a (different) thing back in 2019: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/26/20833903/facebook-instagr.... Threads.com looks like it came out in 2022?

a) Meta Threads which is unrelated to Meta, Threads or apps is trademarked in May, 2018. [1]

b) Threads.com raises Seed round back in Oct, 2018. [2]

c) Meta acquires Meta Threads trademark in Nov, 2021.

d) Threads as a trademark itself has been widely used well before Threads.com. [3]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/threads-aa50/company...

[2] https://trademarks.justia.com/878/42/meta-87842532.html

[3] https://trademarks.justia.com/search?q=threads

Not sure how A C, D are relevant, trademarks pertain only to a specific category. Meta Threads was trademarked for luggage and backpacks. It'll be interesting to see if threads.com has a trademark.

It's more just interesting history.

But D is relevant because of course trademarks are highly specific to a category.

And so Threads (social network) would be considered different to Threads (business chat).

The social app uses .net - Threads.net

Threads.com != Threads( twitter clone ) by meta

I think it is branded as Threads by Instagram.

One Google Play Store, Threads the chat app has "not affiliated with Threads by Instagram" in their listing. I wonder if they are getting lots of downloads by confused people.

A company the size of Facebook can release a new product that they’re trying to eat Twitter’s lunch with and not even buy the dot-com? Crazy.

Mark zuckerberg has literally built a monopoly of social media, lmao. At this point, since they've acquired such a large amount of users (2 billion), they can release anything and people will use it.

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