On Sunday, Meta announced that it would soon be charging social media users a monthly subscription fee to be verified on Facebook and Instagram. Verification results in a 'blue tick' badge ...

“Meta’s move to copy Twitter’s subscription model shows a distinct lack of new ideas … Meta has shed staff and is hemorrhaging money in building a metaverse that no one seems all that inte ...

Meta and Twitter’s commercial battle for users has ... pioneered by rival apps — often with success. In 2016, Instagram copied Snapchat’s disappearing-photo feature, launching Stories ...

This article is from Big Technology, a newsletter by Alex Kantrowitz. The updates came swiftly from Mark Zuckerberg. Threads, his Twitter copycat, hit 2 million users within two hours of its ...

The Twitter owner also threatened to sue Meta when Threads was released to the public, claiming that Threads copied Twitter and stole employees and trade secrets. Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has ...

Opportunity: Use the Reels algorithm to build a better Twitter When Meta copied TikTok, it put a ton of resources into its Reels algorithm. To show you the best videos from across its network ...

But the Facebook founder’s social-network empire stands little chance of suffering a similar fate to Twitter. Investors seemed nervous it would at first. Shares of Meta Platforms slid nearly 6% ...

Threads, Meta's new Twitter competitor ... DETROW: I mean, as often as Meta has successfully copied parts of other social apps - I'm thinking about Instagram Stories cloning Snapchat and becoming ...

The Twitter owner responded to one tweet suggesting that Meta’s app was built largely through the use of the copy and paste function, with a laughing emoji. Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has also ...

Meta seems to want the same amount of data ... it doesn’t really matter that Threads is a relatively straightforward feature-copy of Twitter. The question is what Twitter CEO Elon Musk will ...

"Twitter is in crisis and Meta needs its mojo back," one Meta employee ... time that Mark Zuckerberg's company has attempted to copy another social media platform. Instagram has also taken on ...