Product manager Josh Miller has confirmed that he's leading a team working on a new app for Facebook, but it's not entirely about anonymity.

Miller posted a couple of tweets in response to the New York Times' recent report about the purportedly mobile stand-alone app that will allow users to interact in a discussion without dragging their real names.  

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Mike Isaac of the New York Times reported Tuesday that Facebook will launch the anonymous sharing app in the coming weeks as the company takes a different as well as an experimental approach on its controversial stand on the "real name policy." The report also stated that Miller and his team have already started the testing of the new product last year.

"I hope people know the @branch crew wouldn't build a clone or anything," Miller posted on Twitter.

Although he didn't directly comment on the rumors, Miller insisted that he "can't wait to show you what we've built."

Miller suggested that apps must not only provide anonymity but must also serve a function. The main goal of the product must not be about the identity of the consumers but the human desire which the seller should enable, he added.

He also said that anonymous apps without proper product designs can breed gossips.  

According to the the news website Tech Crunch, Miller hinted on his tweets that Facebook isn't just building an anonymous sharing app or a pseudonymous chat app. Instead, the social network is wrapping up a product that does something different from any apps before.

Miller is the CEO and cofounder of the startup Branch that Facebook bought in January.  Branch, which is based in New York City, focuses on products that build social network discussion groups and aims to help people connect with others around their interests. Miller and his team also joined Facebook after the acquisition. 

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