Meta brainstormed Twitter competitor amid Musk 'crisis': NYT

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Meta considered building a Twitter competitor to capitalize on Elon Musk's 'crisis' at company, report says: 'LET'S GO FOR THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER'

Employees from Facebook and Instragram met virtually in November to generate ideas around building a text-based app that could take on Twitter, the Times reported.

"Twitter is in crisis and Meta needs its mojo back," one Meta employee wrote in a post, per The Times."LET'S GO FOR THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER." At the brainstorming session, the group of workers discussed creating a standalone text-focused app that could be built based off of Instagram's technology, the publication reported. The employees also considered building the text-based feature into Instagram's existing platform as an additional feed like Instagram Reels or rolling the feature into Instagram Notes, per The Times. over the summer and rolled out to a select group of users.

During the meeting, Meta employees came up with several names for a potential Twitter competitor, including Realtime, Real Reels, and Instant, the Times reported.It wouldn't be the first time that Mark Zuckerberg's company has attempted to copy another social media platform. Instagram has also

 

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Lets all go back to MySpace

facebook is actually wasting my time and thinking of switching to twitter permanently ✌️

they already have fb and it sucks..

Guys you are tripping.

It would be nice to have some kind of open social media protocol. We would be free to choose the best social media experience without lose our data.

Might call it 2ndFaceBook. For Zuckerberg, he can just start off by telling people they're not welcome if they don't approve of everything homosexual.

😂

Really? What's the point? You'd just get banned if your opinion doesn't fit their narrative or your post would get deleted if the faceless fact-checkers decided it was fake news.

You mean like another Facebook?

Somebody already ate your Bread and Metabutter.. Envy is such an ugly emotion..

Betr fix ur Meta first Mark.

Zuck,everyone left facebook for twitter because of the crazy uncle shit, now that facebook uncles are on twitter, what are you offering exactly?

Zuck loves losing money he is built different

Build it in the Metaverse.

So in other words Zuckerberg is going with his personal strengths. Stealing someone else idea.

“Crisis” 😂😂 haha Twitter is doing extremely well

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