Twitter Mocks Facebook's New Name "Meta"

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also mocked Mark Zuckerberg. (photo: Facebook Meta)

JAKARTA - The announcement of Facebook's new name, Meta, received many surprising responses, even its rival social media, Twitter, also made fun of it.

“The only #META we acknowledge is this,” said @TwitterSafety who tweeted along with the article on Twitter's Machine Learning, Ethics, Transparency and Accountability (META) team.

Previously, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was known to have mocked Mark Zuckerberg's plan to turn Facebook into a metaverse. Dorsey agreed with the tweet calling the plan a dystopian corporate dictatorship.

the only #META we acknowledge is this:https://t.co/HalSMZt8L5

— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) October 28, 2021

Later, Dorsey also retweeted a tweet from a user named @udiverse21, referring to writer Neal Stephenson, who first coined the term metaverse in 1992.

"The word metaverse was coined by neal Stephenson in the book 'snowcrash' and originally described a corporate-owned virtual world where end users are treated as citizens in a dystopian corporate dictatorship. What if neal is right," tweeted @udiverse21.

When Dorsey retweeted the post, he added a Quote Tweet, "NARATOR: He was."

The Facebook boss said the company's name change was part of its commitment to an all-encompassing metaverse technology strategy.

Facebook wants the metaverse to be the future version of the internet, where users use virtual reality and augmented reality devices to enter virtual worlds.

For information, the social media app Facebook will continue to use its original name, but other apps like WhatsApp and Instagram will distance themselves from the company.

“From now on, we will be the metaverse first, not Facebook first. Over time, you won't need to use Facebook to use our other services as our new brand is starting to appear on our products. I hope people know about the Meta brand and the future we stand for," said Facebook, cited from The Independent, Friday, October 29.