Instagram to launch new text-based Twitter-like app
Instagram's new text-based app: If reports are to be believed, the first glimpse of Instagram's rumoured text-based Twitter competitor surfaced in a leaked marketing clip.
The slide doesn't give the app a separate name -- instead, it just calls it "Instagram's new text-based app for conversations" -- but the app is apparently codenamed P92 or, alternately, Barcelona, as per the sources.
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Users will be able to sign in with their Instagram username and password, and your followers, handle, bio, and verification will transfer over from the main app.
In the app, the users will see a feed, and they can make text posts up to 500 characters long with attached links, photos, and videos.
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The app looks pretty much like if you mixed Instagram and Twitter together, based on two screenshots included in the leaked marketing slide. And Meta will apparently have some good moderation controls from the start, "equipping you with settings to control who can reply to you and mention your account," the slide says. Any accounts the users have blocked on Instagram will apparently carry over.
The new Instagram text app will have an element of decentralization as well.
If the app is released widely, it could make Instagram an even more popular destination than it already is. With the continued worsening of Twitter, many people are looking for their next place to share tweet-like updates.
- ANI
