Business Insider - Facebook hasn't had much luck with the ecosystem of apps it's trying to create outside the regular Facebook app. There's Poke, an app that is almost a direct copy of Snapchat. There's Camera, an Instagram clone that ended up launching shortly after Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion. There's Home, an Android app that turns your home screen into a photo-rich layout of your friends' Facebook posts. None of these apps were hits. Not even close. Poke, for example, hasn't been updated since December 2012, a sign that few if any people are actually using it. (There is one outlier, Facebook Messenger, which is still one of the top social networking apps on iPhone and Android.) Paper, the news curation app Facebook launched today, could face the same fate as the rest of those apps, but not because it's a clone of another product. It's because Paper is a largely a clone of the core feature of Facebook's regular app, the News Feed. Pa
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