{"id":164515,"date":"2023-05-25T00:22:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/heres-an-idea-for-twitter-elon-copycat-your-way-to-a-630-billion-empire-just-as-mark-zuckerberg-did"},"modified":"2023-05-25T00:22:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T05:22:33","slug":"heres-an-idea-for-twitter-elon-copycat-your-way-to-a-630-billion-empire-just-as-mark-zuckerberg-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/heres-an-idea-for-twitter-elon-copycat-your-way-to-a-630-billion-empire-just-as-mark-zuckerberg-did","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s an idea for Twitter, Elon: Copycat your way to a $630 billion empire just as Mark Zuckerberg did"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heres-an-idea-for-twitter-elon-copycat-your-way-to-a-630-billion-empire-just-as-mark-zuckerberg-did2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Meta chief has drawn up plans for Instagram to introduce a Twitter competitor that would allow users to share text, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/instagram-reportedly-testing-twitter-competitor-to-debut-over-summer-2023-5\" id=\"2d7526f6-f2cf-4a9a-a444-705ef2c8a095\">per reports last week<\/a>. Zuckerberg is reportedly already going out of his way to get high-profile influencers onboard.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Zuckerberg has taken a leaf out of his rivals\u2019 books. In the span of almost two decades, he has been able to create \u2013 and keep intact \u2013 his $630 billion social-media empire by copying ideas from plucky upstarts building competing social networks.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-twitter-ceo-says-game-on-as-instagram-competitor-comes-closer-2023-5\" id=\"18369b34-b471-4fbb-9f2a-22e234b2c98c\">Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino seems ready for the challenge<\/a> from Zuckerberg, but if she and Musk are really serious about turning Twitter into a money-making machine, they may need to do some brazen copycatting of their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meta chief has drawn up plans for Instagram to introduce a Twitter competitor that would allow users to share text, per reports last week. Zuckerberg is reportedly already going out of his way to get high-profile influencers onboard. This is not the first time Zuckerberg has taken a leaf out of his rivals\u2019 books. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}