Twitter taking on Instagram

Twitter appears poised to take on Instagram directly by offering sets of photo filters through its mobile apps, according to a report in New York Times. Times reported in the coming months Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered photos on Twitter and bypass them to Instagram. The filters on Instagram make photos look like they were shot in the 1960s or 1890s. Although adding photo filters to Twitter may seem like a trivial addition to a social network that processes nearly a billion people every two days, it could prove to be an important part of the company's business. What it looks like is that Twitter is finally learning steps from Facebook: If you can't buy it, build it.