NYT: Twitter Taking On Instagram With Its Own Photo Filters

Twitter will within months launch colored and stylized photo filters that users of mobile devices can apply to photos posted on the website in a bid to compete with Instagram, the New York Times reported late Friday. The news comes seven months after Instagram’s acquisition by Twitter rival Facebook for $1 billion, itself a deal that was struck reportedly after negotiations for Twitter to acquire to Instagram failed. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey also notably stopped using the service shortly after the Facebook acquisition was announced.