• sloonark
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    142 years ago

    I find it interesting that they chose the name Thread, because it doesn’t really work as a verb. “She threaded the news to her fans” doesn’t have the same ring to it as “She tweeted the news to her fans.”

    • @NewNewAccount
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      102 years ago

      “Tweeted” sounded very weird at first too though. I think thread/threaded, as a verb, is fine.

    • @bedheadkitten
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      32 years ago

      In my native tounge the name for a forum post is actually “thread”, you could say something equivalent to: “did you see the thead she shared?”.

    • Flax
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      22 years ago

      Especially since Instagram already made an app before named Threads which was basically Instagram dms as an app