Reportedly, Meta Platform Instagram is drafting to release a text-based app in order to compete with Twitter. While the app may have its presence by June. The information reported by Bloomberg News recently, by specifying people who are aware of the matter.
In addition to this, Facebook is undergoing testing the product with influencers and some creators, as per the report. While the company does not instantly respond to a request for comment.
Stepping ahead Meta has initiated contacting talent agencies and celebrities in order to gauge their curiosity in making hands-on in an early version of the app. This will be integrated with Instagram.
“The decentralized app is built on the back of Instagram but will be compatible with some other apps like Mastodon,” according to a newsletter by Lia Haberman, who teaches social and influencer marketing at UCLA in California.
Apparently, the report also stated that the parent company Meta has made the new app privately available to selector creators for months. Also, it is said to be a separate account from Instagram. Although enables people to connect accounts as of now.
As per Lia Haberman’s screenshot, the app will allow people to associate with their friends using texts, shared links, photos as well as videos. Besides, fans will be allowed to join the accounts of the influencers as well as creators that they tend to follow on Instagram with just a single tap.
The app is also being updated for security point of view. While, in order to ascertain privacy of accounts. The users blocked on Instagram may shortly be carried over to the new app. Alternatively, the new app is also compatible with Twitter’s rival Mastodon.
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