By Helen Pow and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 20:27 EST, 10 December 2012 | UPDATED: 15:48 EST, 11 December 2012 In the next salvo of an escalating war between two giants of social media, Twitter has announced new versions of its iOS and Android apps to mimic Instagram-style filters and editing software just one day after the Facebook-owned picture app completely blocked user's ability to embed its photos in tweets. The new Twitter app will allow users to take a pic, crop it, enhance it, run it through one of eight filters, and then share it, all without closing the app.
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New features mimic Instagram's popular photo software
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Twitter users can no longer embed Instagram photos directly into tweets
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Users are instead driven to Instagram's own website
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Move signals a deepening rift after Facebook outbid Twitter to buy Instagram in April
A Twitter spokesman declined to comment at the time of Instagram's announcement, but a status message on Twitter's website confirmed that users are 'experiencing issues,' such as 'cropped images' when viewing Instagram photos on @placeholder.