There are few things in this life that we can constantly rely on. Maggie Nelson’s writing will always move us, my mother’s pancake recipe will always be slamming, and Meta will always try to take users from other platforms by transforming their own.
Wednesday, just a few weeks later Elon Musk “let it sink in” into the Twitter registered office, head office media consultant and industry analyst Matt Navarra tweeted about Meta staff discussing the creation of a new rival on Twitter with a “notes” function on instagram, create a separate text-focused app, or add new Twitter-like feeds to Instagram. It will be called Realtime or Real Reels, or Instant which are nice names except they all sound the same.
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“Twitter is in crisis and Meta needs its mojo back,” a Meta employee wrote in a post, according to the New York Times. “LET’S GO FOR THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER.”
While things are incredibly messy on Twitter, Meta has had his own headaches himself. It was necessary pause terrible changes after the Kardashians sued them and, of course, he failed to stop the spread of disinformation that has shaken the foundations of democracies around the world. But users have been ignoring these flags for years.
It’s nothing new for Meta to try to be everything to everyone. Instagram has recently started to look a lot like ICT Tac, but bad. It pivoted to video, increased recommended posts, “Add Yours” stickers pushed and remix capabilities on Reels for Instagram and Facebook, and globally started prioritizing Reels, its short video feature designed to support the app. Before TikTok was a threat, Instagram latched onto Snapchat’s success by launching Instagram Stories. And now, in the post-TikTok world, rumors are spreading that he plans to take inspiration from Be realtoo.
The platform tries to become, really, a super app with shopping, online stores, sharing links, car orders, messages with friends, etc. Mashable previously reportedsucks.
