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> You can't expect to waltz in to that arena, zero plan and expect your "Meta" backing to carry you

Are you still talking about the name choice, or the business in general? Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back it certainly does help.

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> Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back is certainly does help.

Copying a very popular product.... that doesn't depend on a social aspect. Copying social products is way different to copying Excel, etc.

Reddit coppied and replaced digg a popular product that depends on social aspect. Excel is still Excel.

Threads user count immediately completely dwarfed any other Twitter clones. Same with number of active users, which is already half of Twitter's count, according to one article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/26/23890592/threads-meta-mon...

Even if these numbers are moderately inaccurate, Threads is still a smashing success given the time frame. The copying seems to have gone very well. Don't forget they were piggy backing off their own successful social media app, Instagram.

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