It then emerged that Twitter had earlier made a failed $525m bid to buy Instagram. Suggestions that Twitter had "verbally agreed" a deal to buy the app only intensified hostilities with Facebook.
At the end of last year Twitter released Instagram-style photo filters for its own app.
Social networks are growing increasingly protective of their platforms as competition rises for users and for advertising revenue.
Last year, Twitter tightened its rules on what third-party applications are able to do, a move that seen as an attempt to keep users on its platform.
Facebook also proposed changes to its data-sharing rules that would allow the social network to use data collected by Instagram to "tell us information about you" and "improve the quality of ads."
The change allows Facebook, which has more than a billion registered users, to build more complete profiles of its users - and target advertisements - using people's personal data from its social network and from Instagram.
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