Social media giant Instagram, which continues its activities under Meta, launched its microblogging application called Threads in the summer. The platform, which emerged as a direct competitor to X (Twitter), was very popular at the beginning, but then lost interest. However, it managed to attract users again with the features it introduced recently and reached 100 million users.
Today, interesting information about Threads emerged. Instagram President Adam Mosseri announced the first names considered for the application from his Threads account.
The names “Epigram” and “Textagram” were considered for Threads.
Mosseri stated in his post that one of the first names considered for Threads was “Epigram”. He also stated that one of the other names that was never announced and that some people had a hard time giving up was “Textagram”.
However, the company did not use any of these and turned to Threads. We can say that it’s a good thing he did this because neither name sounds good. The meaning of epigram appears in English as “a short saying that expresses an idea in a clever and entertaining way”. Textagram is the combination of the word “text”, which directly means “text” in English, and “gram”.
It seems that Meta wanted to use “gram” like Instagram in this application in the first place. However, fortunately, this obsession was abandoned and a name that was both more original and suitable for the concept, Threads, was preferred.
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