Forget New Twitter—Retro Is a New Instagram | WIRED
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Retro is a new photo app that puts an old idea front and center in your feed: your actual friends.
Save this story Save this story The launch of Threads, Meta’s new Twitter killer, has catapulted some of us into a social media midlife crisis. What is it all for , anyway? Maybe some shiny new app will bring meaning and texture back to microblogging. But also, do we need so many shiny new apps? It’s fitting, then, that just as Twitter is getting a rethink , a new app is emerging to challenge Instagram. The app’s founders won’t say that’s what they’re doing, but they left Meta last spring to incubate a bunch of products that would actually bring family and friends back into your social photo f
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