There is talk that Meta, the Mark Zuckerberg company, is working on developing a rival for Twitter shortly since it has been announced that it wants public figures to join it, including the Dalai Lama and Oprah Winfrey, who are either planning to use it or will refer to it as a rival for Twitter.
This standalone application is codenamed Project92, but a report by tech news site The Verge suggests that the official title could be Threads. This is based on its codename.
During an internal meeting on Thursday, Meta’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, told employees that the app was Meta’s response to Twitter, the social network owned by Facebook and Instagram.
In addition to allowing users to follow accounts they already follow on Instagram, Meta’s image-sharing application may also offer them the opportunity to bring over followers they previously had on decentralized platforms such as Mastodon, if they choose to do so.
Meta spokesperson says the platform is being developed and released soon.
According to Chris Cox, Meta’s chief product officer, Meta’s platform is currently being coded. There is no specific date for releasing the app though the tech giant intends to do so very soon. Several sources speculate that the launch could happen as early as June, but that is still far from certain. <
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