Meta working on Twitter-like micro-blogging platform: Report

Mumbai, 10/3: Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in late 2022, the company has undergone several changes not just in management but also in its social media platforms too has undergone an overhaul in terms of the new Blue subscription that offers the coveted blue verification tick mark for a premium. It was previously limited to high-profile persons.In recent weeks, Twitter has seen several bugs including the repetition of tweets while scrolling, ruining user experience, and the controversial removal of two-factor authentication using SMS has angered users a lot. While Musk is trying hard to reboot Twitter with depleted staff, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) is silently working on a competitor under the project codenamed ‘P92’.

 

It is said to be a standalone text-based Instagram-branded content app that will work on decentralised social networking protocol ActivityPub, which by the way is also used to run Mastodon and other federated apps, reported Money Control, citing company insiders.

 

Meta’s internal product brief available with MC says besides texting, the new platform will have several Twitter-like features including the ability to share tappable links in posts with previews, reshare (like retweet), images, and videos, offer space to show user’s short bio, username handle, and verification badges (not sure it will have checkmark

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