Special Episode: Meta’s Twitter rival arrives, featuring Adam Mosseri
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Instagram is no stranger to taking product ideas from other companies and turning them into their own success. Just ask Snapchat for Instagram Stories or TikTok for Instagram Reels. This time the company comes for Twitter with Instagram Threads.
Today, the head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, explains why the company now wants to tackle Twitter.
Credits
“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rose and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto. Fact Check by Caitlin Love.
Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.