Instagram Set to Challenge Twitter with New Text-Based App: Report

Published: May 21, 2023

Last Updated: May 20, 2023, 00:10 IST

Meta has been contacting talent agencies and celebrities to gauge their interest in trying an early version of the app. (Collage of Twitter and Instagram logos/Reuters)

Meta has been contacting expertise businesses and celebrities to gauge their curiosity in making an attempt an early model of the app. (Collage of Twitter and Instagram logos/Reuters)

The Facebook mum or dad is testing the product with influencers and a few creators, in keeping with the report

Meta Platforms’ Instagram is planning to launch a text-based app that can compete with Twitter and should debut as quickly as June, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing individuals accustomed to the matter.

The Facebook mum or dad is testing the product with influencers and a few creators, in keeping with the report.

The firm didn’t instantly reply to a Reuters request for remark.

Meta has been contacting expertise businesses and celebrities to gauge their curiosity in making an attempt an early model of the app, which will likely be built-in with Instagram, mentioned Alex Heath, reporter on the Verge, in a e-newsletter.

“The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon,” in keeping with a e-newsletter by Lia Haberman, who teaches social and influencer advertising and marketing at UCLA in California.

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