{"id":167052,"date":"2023-07-07T06:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/threads-twitter-and-mark-zuckerbergs-long-history-of-copycat-apps-and-features"},"modified":"2023-07-07T06:22:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T11:22:30","slug":"threads-twitter-and-mark-zuckerbergs-long-history-of-copycat-apps-and-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/threads-twitter-and-mark-zuckerbergs-long-history-of-copycat-apps-and-features","title":{"rendered":"Threads, Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s long history of copycat apps and features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/threads-twitter-and-mark-zuckerbergs-long-history-of-copycat-apps-and-features3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg isn\u2019t particularly shy about copying a good idea when he sees one.<\/p>\n<p>From cribbing Snapchat\u2019s stories feature to cloning TikTok in the form of Instagram Reels, the Facebook co-founder has a long and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/02\/14\/facebooks-poor-track-record-on-standalone-copycat-apps.html\">well-documented<\/a> history of being a copycat.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg\u2019s latest not-quite-innovation comes in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/07\/05\/meta-launches-instagram-threads-messaging-app-challenging-twitter.html\">Threads<\/a>, an Instagram-based Twitter competitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Zuckerberg isn\u2019t particularly shy about copying a good idea when he sees one. From cribbing Snapchat\u2019s stories feature to cloning TikTok in the form of Instagram Reels, the Facebook co-founder has a long and well-documented history of being a copycat. Zuckerberg\u2019s latest not-quite-innovation comes in the form of Threads, an Instagram-based Twitter competitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}