Eh, I’d say most of their target audience (Instagram and Twitter users) were born after that was released and have probably never heard of it.
Plus, most social media already has stupid names. Twitter. Reddit. Lemmy. Instagram. Mastodon. Tiktok. Vine. Kbin. Foursquare. Flickr. Hinge. Bumble. Tinder. These names mean nothing in relation to their function.
The only ones that are remotely close are Facebook and Snapchat.
Did no one at Meta think to see what Threads means around the world?
Because to those of us of a certain age in the UK, it doesn’t inspire confidence.
Eh, I’d say most of their target audience (Instagram and Twitter users) were born after that was released and have probably never heard of it.
Plus, most social media already has stupid names. Twitter. Reddit. Lemmy. Instagram. Mastodon. Tiktok. Vine. Kbin. Foursquare. Flickr. Hinge. Bumble. Tinder. These names mean nothing in relation to their function.
The only ones that are remotely close are Facebook and Snapchat.