Social media giant Instagram, which continues its activities within the Meta organization, Wires He launched the microblogging application named after him. The platform, which emerged as a direct competitor to X (Twitter), was very popular at first but then lost interest. However, it managed to attract users again with the features it recently introduced and reached 100 million users.

Today some interesting information about Threads emerged. Instagram President Adam Mosseri, via his Threads account The first names to be considered for the application explained.

The names “Epigram” and “Textagram” were eligible for Threads.

Mosseri shared in his post that one of the first names to be considered for Threads “Epigramhe claimed. Additionally, one of the other names that was never revealed and that some people had a hard time giving up was:textagram” he said.

However, the company did not use this and turned to Threads. We can say it’s a good thing he did this because neither name sounds right. Epigram means ‘in Englisha short saying that expresses an idea in a clever and entertaining way.” appears as. Textagram is the combination of the word “text”, which directly means “text” in English, and “gram”.

First of all, Meta says that in this application, just like Instagram, “-gramIt looks like he wants to use ”. Fortunately, however, this obsession was abandoned in favor of a name that was both more original and more appropriate to the concept, Threads.