Meta’s social networking platform Instagram is preparing to bring a new microblogging text-based app to compete with Twitter. According to reports, this new app of Instagram can be launched by the end of June.
Company currently testing the app
According to sources, the company is currently testing this project. For testing, the company has secretly given this app to some selected celebrities, influencers and creators for the last few months.
This app is separate from Instagram, but it will allow people to connect the accounts of both the apps. It is being told that Instagram has named this project as P92 and Barcelona.

This app will compete with platforms like Twitter-Mastodon
Leah Haberman, who teaches Social and Influencer Marketing at the University of California and Los Angeles (UCLA), recently shared a screenshot of the app description. In whose caption he wrote that this Instagram app will compete with social networking platforms like Twitter and Mastodon.
Meta’s been briefing creators on it’s upcoming text-based app — now looking at a possible late June launch.
Details are in my newsletter but I’ll list some highlights 🧵 pic.twitter.com/KYqqXjrRmD
— Lia Haberman (@liahaberman) May 19, 2023
Users will be able to post text up to 500 characters in the app
Haberman also told that in this new app, users can post text of up to 500 characters. Apart from this, he can also post photos, links and videos in it. Also, this app will be easily linked to Instagram, so that users do not have any problem in connecting with their existing followers. However, Meta Platforms Inc. regarding this app. No statement has been revealed so far from Instagram owned by.
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Meta’s social networking platform Instagram is preparing to bring a new microblogging text-based app to compete with Twitter. According to reports, this new app of Instagram can be launched by the end of June.
Company currently testing the appAccording to sources, the company is currently testing this project. For testing, the company has secretly given this app to some selected celebrities, influencers and creators for the last few months.
This app is separate from Instagram, but it will allow people to connect the accounts of both the apps. It is being told that Instagram has named this project as P92 and Barcelona.
This app will compete with platforms like Twitter-MastodonLeah Haberman, who teaches Social and Influencer Marketing at the University of California and Los Angeles (UCLA), recently shared a screenshot of the app description. In whose caption he wrote that this Instagram app will compete with social networking platforms like Twitter and Mastodon.
Meta’s been briefing creators on it’s upcoming text-based app — now looking at a possible late June launch. Details are in my newsletter but I’ll list some highlights 🧵 pic.twitter.com/KYqqXjrRmD— Lia Haberman (@liahaberman) May 19, 2023
Users will be able to post text up to 500 characters in the appHaberman also told that in this new app, users can post text of up to 500 characters. Apart from this, he can also post photos, links and videos in it. Also, this app will be easily linked to Instagram, so that users do not have any problem in connecting with their existing followers. However, Meta Platforms Inc. regarding this app. No statement has been revealed so far from Instagram owned by.