Twitter threatens legal action against Meta
Twitter threatens legal action against Meta over threads
Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app called Threads, which has attracted millions of users since its launch this week as a rival to Elon Musk’s social media platform.
In a letter Wednesday to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, alleged Twitter illegal trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to build “copycat” apps on Meta. accused of using from This move has increased the tension between the two.
The Wednesday launch of Threads comes as the social media giant targets people looking for an alternative to Twitter amid unpopular changes Musk has made to the platform since buying it last year for $44 billion.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone wrote on Threads on Thursday: “There aren’t any former Twitter employees on the Threads engineering team — that doesn’t matter.” In the letter, which news website Semaphore first reported on Thursday, Spiro said Twitter “intends to vigorously enforce” its intellectual property rights and noted the company’s right to seek civil remedies or a court injunction.
He added that the letter is a “formal notice” for Meta to preserve relevant documents for a possible dispute between the companies. In response to a tweet about the possibility of legal action against Meta, Musk wrote: ” Competition is okay, cheating isn’t.” New Twitter CEO Linda Yacarino has not commented publicly on the letter, but appeared to address the launch of Threads. Yacarino tweeted,
“We are often copied — but The Twitter community can never be copied.” Some analysts say Meta’s new offering, presented as a text-based version of photo-sharing app Instagram, could be a significant headache for Twitter. — pointing to the excitement surrounding the launch of Threads and the impressive download numbers so far.
Twitter threatens legal action against Meta
But success is not guaranteed. Industry watchers point to Meta’s track record of launching standalone apps that were later shut down and note that Threads is still in its early days.
In addition to some glitches and complaints about missing features, Meta’s new app has also raised data privacy concerns. While Threads has been launched in over 100 countries, it is notably unavailable in the European Union, where it has strict data privacy regulations.
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