Meta is planning to roll out a decentralized social media platform that could be a direct competitor to Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Platformer reported the new app codenamed “P92” will be stand-alone, but users can log in using their Twitter credentials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meta wants to gain Twitter users who are looking for<\/a><\/strong> alternatives as the site falters after new owner Elon Musk’s major revamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Meta rumored to be planning latest batch of job cuts after losing 11,000 employees<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Meta spokesperson said: \u201cWe\u2019re exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe believe there\u2019s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely updates about their interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meta’s endeavor would stretch its offerings beyond Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram into a field controlled by Elon Musk’s Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was reported that Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri is in charge of the project<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Other decentralized social networks, like Mastodon or Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky, depend on individual servers that use a standard protocol which eliminate centralized control of content and possible censorship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It’s unclear how long Meta has been working on the P92 product or whether the firm has begun the development process<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moneycontrol, which first published the news, cited a familiar source who said the plan was still a \u201cwork-in-progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meta is reportedly considering integrations with current social networks such as Twitter or Mastodon, partly relying on a protocol known as ActivityPub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>CNBC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Meta plans to roll out a decentralized social media platform that could be a direct competitor to Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[686,383,753,329],"class_list":["post-38386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-facebook","tag-meta","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}