Meta’s New Social Network ‘Threads’: A Direct Competitor to Twitter with Elements of Instagram

• Meta is preparing another social network
• It was meant to be a direct competitor to Twitter
• It borrows a lot of elements from Instagram

The company Meta organized internal preview of its new social platform, which is supposed to be a direct competitor to Twitter. As part of it, one of the employees managed to take a screenshot. The official name is not known at this time, but internally the platform is referred to as “Project 92”.

Various speculations suggest that the new social network could be called “Threads” and thanks to the leaked screenshots we can get a rough idea of ​​what it will look like. At first glance, it is obvious that Meta borrowed a lot of UI elements from Instagram, which also falls under this company. Thanks to the ActivityPub protocol it will also be possible to transfer your account and followers from Instagramso you won’t have to build everything from scratch.

The CEO of Meta directly hinted that Threads will be the answer to Twitter. The company is said to have approached several celebrities like him DJ Slime, TV host Oprah Winfrey or even the Dalai Lama to help promote it. Development started in January this year and Meta wants to launch it on the market as soon as possible.

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Source: GSMArena