Meta is growing a Twitter different

After rumors swirled for some time, Meta has confirmed its engaged on growing a brand new social community.

After rumors went round final month that Meta would launch a competitor to Twitter, this has basically been confirmed by the corporate. In accordance with Meta, it’s “exploring a standalone decentralized social community for sharing textual content updates. We imagine there’s a chance for a separate area the place creators and public figures can share well timed updates about their pursuits.” If that sounds rather a lot like Twitter, that’s as a result of it’s a lot like Twitter.

An app researcher by the identify of Alessandro Paluzzi shared some photographs of the in-development platform on, you guessed it, Twitter, and referred to as the brand new social community like ‘Instagram to your ideas’ which might be, effectively, Twitter. Meta isn’t popping out and saying that the corporate is attempting to problem Twitter, however it solely is sensible. Particularly contemplating the social media ecosystem Meta already controls in Fb and Instagram. If Meta might provide one thing like Twitter, it might fold in neatly with the model’s different platform.

How precisely Meta’s tackle a brand new social community will work remains to be up within the air, although. As of now, every thing remains to be comparatively early days. The fundamental thought is that you simply’ll have the ability to share your ideas by way of textual content posts, and also you’ll have the ability to observe different customers to remain on high of at any time when they publish one thing new. Very similar to Twitter, Meta’s platform could have a comparatively strict character restrict that’s at present mentioned to be round 500 characters.

Whereas social media corporations getting greater and extra highly effective isn’t precisely the very best information, Twitter has appeared to be in fixed chaos for some time now. And when you might entry an analogous service from throughout the context of, say, the Instagram app, effectively, that actually might make lots of people change.