Meta is reportedly working on a new social media app similar to Twitter โ€“ thatโ€™s decentralized and allows users to share timely updates in text format.

Hopefully, this new app will target the current Twitter users who are in a confused state after Muskโ€™s acquisition, as the platform is facing a lot of chaos. Though Meta confirmed itโ€™s working on a new platform, thereโ€™s no timeline on when we can see this yet.

Metaโ€™s Plans for Tackling Twitter

Twitter has long been a social media for celebrities, government officials, and brands to community their activity updates in a quick and short format. This technique seemed to be effective, as the platform garnered over 400 million users worldwide โ€“ until Elon Musk took over!

His rough acquisition last year led to several chaotic events โ€“ impersonation, advertiser dilemma, reinstating controversial accounts, etc. โ€“ leading some people to leave the platform in a dilemma.

And now, Meta wants to cash on this opportunity by tunneling these confused users and brands to a new social media platform โ€“ which it revealed to be working on. As confirmed to Reuters, a Meta spokesperson said;

โ€œWeโ€™re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. We believe thereโ€™s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests.โ€

This idealogy seems mostly like Twitter โ€“ which functions on the same principles. Well, Meta putting a decentralized word in between means the result could be something like Mastadon โ€“ a similar platform launched in 2016, now gaining more traction after Muskโ€™s takeover of Twitter.

Metaโ€™s plans of building a Twitter-like app come at a time of chaos at the actual Twitter โ€“ which is seeing a lot of disturbances after Elon Muskโ€™s takeover. The new CEO introduced a paid verification system that messed up the platformโ€™s trust โ€“ as scammers impersonated popular brands and accounts, leading to several issues.

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