Chris Cox showed Meta's staff its “response to Twitter”, an Instagram-based text app integrated with ActivityPub; documents say the app could be called Threads
One of Meta's top executives showed employees a preview of the company's upcoming Twitter competitor during …
The Verge Alex Heath
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Discussion
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Moneycontrol
Moneycontrol
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Exclusive: Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon
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@alexeheath
Alex Heath
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Here is what Meta's upcoming Twitter competitor looks like. The company is talking to Oprah and other celebs about being early users. “We've been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run"https://www.theverge.com/ ...
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@thedeskdotnet
@thedeskdotnet
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Meta wants Oprah and the Dalai Lama to be early users of its Twitter clone https://www.theverge.com/...
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@nospheratt
@nospheratt
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I can't believe we're gonna end up on Meta's claws 😩 But I'm thinking that if there's gonna be a true massive exodus, this is going to be it https://twitter.com/...
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@karissabe
Karissa Bell
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The Verge w/ some more deets on Insta's upcoming Twitter clone and “its public name could be Threads, based on internal documents” .. uh Instagram already had an app called Threads?? https://about.instagram.com/ ...
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@giladedelman
Gilad Edelman
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Meta has eaten a ton of crap for its head-scratching business decisions in the past few years. (Cough, metaverse.) But this one seems unambiguously smart. Starting a new social network is a lot easier when you already have network effects. Curious how it plays out. https://twitte…
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@pjbrown_iii
Pete Brown
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Even though this is a product coming from Meta & Zuck, I am weirdly enthralled and fascinated by #Project92 simply because such a major player is launching an #ActivityPub based service Huge for the protocol & even bigger for #socialnetworking as a whole QUITE interested 👀 https:…
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@karissabe
Karissa Bell
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@alexeheath the og threads was a dud iirc so kinda funny to me they would revive the name for their Twitter clone
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@tomcoates
Tom Coates
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Yeah I'm not going near Facebook again I'm afraid. Mastodon or Bluesky are the ways forward right now. https://twitter.com/...
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@kyliebytes
Kylie Robison
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Meta announcing its new Twitter competitor internally, calling its version “sanely run.” Spicy spicy spicyyyyy https://www.theverge.com/...
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@krynsky
Mark Krynsky
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Looks interesting but I'll only care about it if there's a way to use on desktop in a similar way to Tweetdeck which I think is highly unlikely. https://twitter.com/...
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@mgsiegler
M.G. Siegler
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The interaction buttons are larger than the text! And so your eyes naturally go there on scanning the feed. What is this, a 2008-era website with all those awful share buttons? If you want to make a network geared towards text-based updates, maybe focus on, you know, the text? ht…
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@parkerortolani
Parker Ortolani
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Pretty stoked for this. https://twitter.com/...