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Meta will release a special app to compete with Twitter

Meta will release a special app to compete with Twitter

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.