A day after Fb guardian firm Meta went stay with its Twitter-like social media app Threads, Twitter has reportedly threatened to sue Meta.
Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro despatched a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the corporate of deliberately stealing “Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and different mental property,” in keeping with a report by Semafor.
“Competitors is ok, dishonest just isn’t,” Twitter Govt Chairman and Chief Know-how Officer Elon Musk tweeted in response to the report Thursday.
Spiro accused Meta of getting Twitter’s secrets and techniques by hiring dozens of former Twitter workers and claimed the Fb guardian firm put them to work making a Twitter copycat, utilizing their insider information to hurry up growth of the Threads app — which is “in violation of each state and federal regulation in addition to these workers’ ongoing obligations to Twitter,” Spiro mentioned within the letter.
Meta communications director Andy Stone rebutted the accusations, saying in a Thread that “nobody on the Threads engineering crew is a former Twitter worker — that is simply not a factor.”
Threads launched Wednesday, with Meta positioning the brand new social media app as a Twitter rival. You’ll be able to join Threads utilizing your Instagram credentials and hold your username, followers and verification standing. This is the whole lot it’s good to find out about Threads, which reached 30 million signal ups in simply 16 hours, in keeping with Zuckerberg.
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