Instagram’s Threads: all the updates on the new Twitter competitor
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RIP to the old Instagram Threads (2019 - 2021).
You’d be excused for noticing that the name of Meta’s new Twitter competitor is very familiar. It already launched a different clone app tied to Instagram under the same name in 2019.
Like Google Currents (which entered the Google Graveyard in 2014 and in 2023), Instagram’s Threads name is being recycled after the first iteration was a messaging platform made for “close sharing” that was supposed to do battle with Snapchat until it shut down at the end of 2021.
Hopefully, this version of Threads has a better outcome.
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