Instagram's Twitter clone will be dead on arrival for too many reasons to count

Instagram is launching a standalone, text-based app to rival Twitter, but here's why it will probably flop right out of the gate.

that same day and which is in the process of producing a standalone Twitter competitor. “Game on!” Yaccarino tweeted, and I don’t blame her one bit for the swipe at a company reportedly prepping its text-based, Twitter-like version of Instagram to launch sometime this summer.

, to a social darling like Twitter — but Instagram’s parent company also has no track record whatsoever of building new successes from the ground up in the face of competitive threats.We would be having an entirely different conversation if Meta was acquiring an upstart Twitter rival like Bluesky, but no.

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