Project 92, Meta's Twitter
competitor, is a project under development. According to reports, the
corporation is already in contact with well-known figures like Oprah Winfrey
and the Dalai Lama about joining the platform.
The social media platforms of
Meta are renowned for adding features that have been lifted from other social
media applications. It doesn't matter if it's Reels inspired by TikTok, Stories
inspired by Snapchat, or Communities inspired by Discord—Meta's most popular
applications, like Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, have it all. The
organisation run by Mark Zuckerberg seems to have ambitious intentions to
challenge Twitter this time.
For years, there have been
rumours that Meta is developing a Twitter competitor. Recently, though, a study
suggested that the corporation could be more similar to its Twitter rival.
During a company-wide meeting
last week, senior Meta officials gave staff a sneak peek of their impending
Twitter competitor. According to the preview provided to The Verge, this would
be a separate app from Meta with functionality and a user experience similar to
Twitter. The codename for the platform is "Project 92."
According to the screenshot,
Meta will allow users to sign in using their Facebook or Instagram IDs, sparing
them the trouble of registering new IDs. Users can respond to a prompt in the
manner of Twitter and invite others to like, comment, and re-share their
responses with or without further commentary (essentially, to retweet). The
screenshot also implies that users will be able to build threads, which are
collections of postings that are made one after the other.
The article also notes that
Instagram's account structure would be used by the Twitter-inspired Meta app to
fill a user's data. Chris Cox, the chief product officer of Meta, is believed
to have stated during the conference that the business was already in contact
with well-known figures like Oprah and the Dalai Lama to join the platform in
order to encourage people to download the "Project 92" app.
As Musk continues to swiftly
overhaul his team and working culture, driving several senior executives to go,
many experts have openly raised their worries about hate speech on Twitter.
Additionally, it is said that Twitter has resisted paying its monthly fees for
Google Cloud. Without a reliable cloud service managing the information flow on
the platform, Twitter may be subject to security and privacy risks.
However, Meta platforms also
have a mixed reputation in terms of issues relating to safety and privacy. The
Wall Street Journal published a story last week claiming that Instagram's
algorithms promoted the selling of illegal on the website. The firm has strong
guidelines regarding CSAM (child sexual abuse material), Meta retorted. Even if
the corporation claims to have put all the rules and safeguards in place, it
won't be shocking if new sites start appearing every day that share this type
of stuff.