Shepherd Mwamba John

The beauty in the struggle , ugliness in the success 🇿🇲🇿🇲 i am me and i am okay with me

[Taste of Country @TasteOfCountry]

67 Years Ago Today: Johnny Cash Meets June Carter During Opry Debut https://t.co/R4tgeQheA2

[Dr. George @GeorgeAnagli]

Mark Zuckerberg when Elon Musk was firing Twitter employees 🤣

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨BREAKING: TWITTER TO SUE META | FACEBOOK'S LITANY OF COPYCAT FAILS

Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg threatening legal action, claiming that Meta hired former Twitter employees to create a clone.

This isn't surprising, as Facebook's Moto has always been 'Why Innovate When You Can Imitate'

Unlike great tech innovators, Meta literally just takes others’ ideas and repackages them.

It is no secret that Meta has a copycat culture, and we know this because a US House Judiciary Committee probe in 2020 revealed emails from April 2012 with Facebook employees stating “copying is faster than innovating,”

Zuckerberg was asked by the Judiciary Committee whether "Facebook ever threatened to clone the products of another company while also trying to acquire that company?”

He responded "not that I recall" (please don't laugh)

Remember when @ElonMusk was mocked for Twitter Blue, then a few months later Instagram copied the strategy? Old habits die hard.

A QUICK GUIDE TO EXAMPLES OF FACEBOOK'S COPYCAT FAILS:

1) Facebook Check In deals - started in 2011 and closed after 4 months. This was a copy of Groupon and LivingSocial.

2) Facebook Gifts - started in September 2012 and closed after 1 year. This was a copy of the gifting app Karma.

3) Facebook acquired Parse in 2013 but had to shut it down. It was doing well before Facebook bought it

4) Facebook Credits - Users said it was too confusing. Credits were used by many companies like Disney Dining Credits.

5) Facebook Messages with email - this was touted as a "Gmail killer" but it was dropped as it was not popular.

6) Facebook Places - This was similar to Foursquare. In September 2011 it was shut down due to privacy concerns.

7) Facebook Stories - This was a failed copy of Pinterest and Snapchat.

8) Facebook Slingshot - This was a Snapchat imitation that launched in 2014, but it was scrapped in 2015.

9) Facebook Poke - This was probably the first Snapchat feature imitation, launched in December 2012 but pulled in 2014.

MY THOUGHTS:

Firstly, I hope Twitter proceed with their lawsuit as someone needs to stand-up to Meta's vulture-like approach to business: Acquiring competitors or destroying them by copying their product.

But at the same time, I do NOT think Meta is a threat to Twitter.

Twitter and Meta are FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT

It's not about functionality, it's about each platform's stance on FREE SPEECH.

Both platforms can co-exist, they are NOT mutually exclusive.

The same way Twitter is shifting to 'X', the 'everything app', Meta is expanding so they compete with Twitter. I expect both ecosystems to exist a decade from now, with similar apps, but VERY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES.

This difference makes it impossible for each to copy the other. Twitter will always be the Free Speech Town Hall and no other platform can take away that crown. Certainly not Meta.

So you simply need to ask yourself: How important is Free Speech to you?

META vs TWITTER, who comes out on top?

[Shepherd Mwamba John @ShepherdMwamba]

@magnet_44 💙💙💙💙

[GetBlock 🧊 @getblockio]

In blockchain we trust. GetBlock supports thousands of Web3 apps with API node infrastructure🚀

✅Cost-efficient, flexible and reliable RPC provider with a free plan for 40.000 requests/day.

[Julien Laurens @LaurensJulien]

The 2023 ESPNFC 100 is here!!! Who is the best forward? The best GK? The best central midfielder? The best manager? And you can even watch the show @Marcotti and I did to debrief the rankings! @ESPNFC
https://t.co/oPC8PJUXwl

[Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️ @calvinrobinson]

People are too invested in the Trans movement to ever acknowledge it was a mistake.

Particularly parents who have irrevocably damaged their children.

For their own sanity, they have to double down and convince themselves they were right.

@HJoyceGender:

[Jefe!! @kuxthedon]

THIS IS ZEDMAN😂

[Shepherd Mwamba John @ShepherdMwamba]

@DiggersOfNews 🫢🤔

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

The global food crisis is getting so bad that the EU now wants to reconnect a sanctioned Russian bank to the global financial system to keep the grain supply moving https://t.co/6CR91QPlOu

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

#ManCity are expected to conclude negotiations over an £86M deal for RB Leipzig’s Josko Gvardiol in the coming days.

[via @mcgrathmike]

[James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer @jamesvgingerich]

The Foundation of #Innovation. (UiPath) #Automation #RPA @UiPath

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Cesc Fabregas has retired from football 🥺

Legend of the game ❤️👏

[Waluu @WaluuK]

A man of God talking about tonyaling of the breasts??.. In a big crowd like this? 🤔
Is it just me or shani mwebantu? Language iyi is not for a man of God mwe, maybe ngabalichitako paraphrase..

I come in peace 🥹😅

[Shepherd Mwamba John @ShepherdMwamba]

@WaluuK Nothing wrong with that unless your look on point of perfection