Images from Instagram, the photo-sharing app that lets user spruce up their work with a slate of arty and retro filters, no longer show up on Twitter, a popular place to share them. The change, foreshadowed when photos began appearing buggy on Twitter last week, was confirmed Sunday by both Twitter and Instagram. It marks a shift in how the app will be used and signals a new round in the escalating feud between two of the Web's social media titans. Since Facebook bought Instagram in April, it's been apparent that Facebook and Twitter, which rank one-two in popularity among social-networking users, are distancing themselves from each other.
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The Twitter-Facebook fight escalates with latest Instagram move
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Images from the popular photo app no longer appear on Twitter
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Facebook bought Instagram in April for a reported $1 billion
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With @placeholder pushing to grow its mobile revenue (and modest stock price) and Twitter still searching for effective ways to translate its popularity into profit, this rift was perhaps inevitable.
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With Facebook pushing to grow its mobile revenue (and modest stock price) and @placeholder still searching for effective ways to translate its popularity into profit, this rift was perhaps inevitable.
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Keeping Instagram photos off Twitter also could encourage users to publish their pictures to @placeholder, which allows them to show up in all their glory.