Instagram account with username Meta vanishes mysteriously after Facebook announces name change
India Today
A publisher on Instagram, that had the username Meta, mysteriously vanished from the platform after Facebook announced its new name.
When Mark Zuckerberg had founded the social media app Facebook, the name was unique to his company. But this time around, Zuckerberg decision to bring in Meta into the picture turned out to be problematic for companies that already had the same name. A small time publisher on Instagram, that had the username Meta, mysteriously vanished from the platform after Facebook announced its new name. The incident was first brought to light by Quartz.
Much before Facebook changed its name to Meta, an account by that name already existed on Instagram. The account belong to a small-time magazine by the same name that publishes stories about motorcycles primarily. The first thing that the magazine did after Facebook announced new name for its parent company, post pictures of print issues with the caption “Since 2014”. It was to make the readers understand that the magazine was established much before Facebook brought the name to the limelight.
