<story><title>Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternative-completely-unrelated-to-instagram-has-seen-downloads-surge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ayewo</author><text>Does anyone remember Clubhouse? Clubhouse the social audio app at clubhouse.com ?&lt;p&gt;The sudden popularity of clubhouse.com overshadowed 
clubhouse.io forcing the latter to rename to shortcut.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shortcut.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;clubhouses-name-is-now-shortcut#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shortcut.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;clubhouses-name-is-now-shortcu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Threads, a Slack alternative unrelated to Instagram, has seen downloads surge</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/15/threads-a-slack-alternative-completely-unrelated-to-instagram-has-seen-downloads-surge/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ec109685</author><text>Reminds me of how the $ZOOM stock kept shooting up whenever ZM was in the news: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;securityboulevard.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;investors-buy-up-the-wrong-zoom&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;securityboulevard.com&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;04&amp;#x2F;investors-buy-up-the-w...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>