Meta’s Twitter Competitor Briefly Appeared On Google Play Store: Report – News18

Alessandro Paluzzi, a developer who digs into app code to reveal unreleased options, tweeted that Meta’s Twitter-like app had been launched into the Google Play retailer, stories The Verge.

However, plainly was a mistake, because the app is nowhere to be discovered now.

Paluzzi additionally shared screenshots that exposed the UI parts of the app, together with the login display screen, which lets customers register with their Instagram accounts, and one other display screen that has a listing of their adopted accounts from Instagram, in order that they will choose who to observe on Threads.

According to the screenshots, Instagram’s Twitter-like blue checkmarks may even be accessible within the new software.

Since January, Threads has been beneath growth at Meta beneath the identify “Project 92.”

“We’ve been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution,” Meta chief product officer Chris Cox had stated.

Cox additionally stated that the brand new app could be “our response to Twitter”.

This application is the reason behind the anticipated showdown between Twitter-owner Elon Musk and Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – IANS)