Meet Instagram’s new Twitter competitor

Washington: If reports are to be believed, the first glimpse of Instagram’s rumoured text-based Twitter competitor surfaced in a leaked marketing clip.

The slide doesn’t give the app a separate name — instead, it just calls it “Instagram’s new text-based app for conversations” — but the app is apparently codenamed P92 or, alternately, Barcelona, according to Haberman, quoted The Verge.

Users will be able to sign in with their Instagram username and password, and your followers, handle, bio, and verification will transfer over from the main app.

In the app, the users will see a feed, and they can make text posts up to 500 characters long with attached links, photos, and videos.