Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, announced this Friday that it is working on a new social network whose description suggests it is a potential future competitor to Twitter.
“We are thinking about a decentralized and independent social network that allows for the exchange of written messages in real time,” the group said in a statement sent to AFP, confirming the information published by the “site” Platformer.
According to the information, the new application will be designed to interoperate with other networks of the same type, such as Mastodon, which gained relative popularity after the acquisition of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk last October.
Mastodon operates through decentralized servers with no central control or decision-making authority.
The announcement comes as Twitter is losing momentum after being acquired by Elon Musk, who fired more than half of his staff and made controversial decisions that have worried advertisers.
The Twitter network is also regularly the victim of technical failures.
The interoperability provided by Meta also stands out in Twitter’s approach to the matter: in December, Elon Musk briefly suspended the accounts of several users who shared “links” to other social networks, including Facebook, Instagram or Mastodon.