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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitterâs trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads.
Spiro, who is also Elon Muskâs personal lawyer and a partner at the Quinn Emanuel law firm, claims that Meta hired âdozensâ of ex-Twitter employees to develop Threads, which wouldnât be all that surprising given just how many people were fired following Muskâs takeover.
But according to Twitter, many of these former workers still have access to Twitterâs trade secrets and other confidential information. Twitter alleges that Meta took advantage of this and tasked these employees with developing a âcopycatâ app âin violation of both state and federal law.â
As a result, Twitter is threatening legal action in the form of âboth civil remedies and injunctive relief.â It also âdemands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential informationâ and says Meta isnât allowed to crawl or scrape Twitterâs data, either.
Meta responded to Twitterâs letter in a post on Threads, with communications director Andy Stone stating, âNo one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee â thatâs just not a thing.â Meta doesnât seem all too concerned about this, and that may be because Twitter isnât all that shy about threatening legal action. In May, Twitter accused Microsoft of abusing the companyâs API through integrations with some of its products.
Meta launched Threads on Wednesday night, with celebrities and brands the first to get on board. Less than 24 hours since the appâs launch, Threads has garnered over 30 million registered users, while internal data obtained by The Vergeâs Alex Heath indicates that users have already made over 95 million threads.
âCompetition is fine, cheating is not,â Musk said in a reply to a post about the letter on Twitter.
Where is Elonâs PR department? Man wonât stop tarnishing his own reputation.
Iâm fairly sure it doesnât take trade secrets to build a Twitter clone.
This guy would be three steps ahead of the PR. Dude publicly mocked a guy in a wheelchair who also happened to have a 100 million dollar clause if he was fired, which he was, publicly, on Twitter while having his HIPAA information released by his CEO because he thought he was malingering.
What PR firm could get ahead of that ONE day, let alone so many others of that level of holy shit? Not one that wants to stay profitable since heâs supposedly stiffing other companies they do business with.
Just get your đż ready
Well Twitter, Spotify, and Netflix are all like standard system design/architecture case studies and interview questions. Pretty sure Twitter has been invented like 300,000 times in various iterations. Itâs not exactly like CocaColaâs recipe.
It has been about a decade since his reputation stopped being âtech visionary who will save the worldâ and started being âedgy pre-teen with a credit card that has no limitâ.
I think he literally fired the PR department at Twitter, and all emails from press are auto-replied to with a poop emoji. The man is such an unfunny child.
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