Fri 07 July 2023:
Twitter has threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform.
The company has written to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to say it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, according to news site Semafor, citing a letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro.
Spiro said the new service was constructed by former Twitter employees who he said were deliberately assigned to create a “copycat” application.
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” said the letter.
“Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice,” it said.
“Competition is fine, cheating is not,” Elon Musk responded to one tweet.
NEWS: Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over "systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation" of Twitter's trade secrets and IP, as well as scraping of Twitter's data, in a cease-and-desist letter sent yesterday to Zuckerberg by Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro. pic.twitter.com/enWhnlYcAt
— T(w)itter Daily News (@TitterDaily) July 6, 2023
The new Meta service was launched Wednesday.
By Thursday afternoon, the tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, claimed there had been 30 million sign-ups to the new platform.
Meta Communications Director Andy Stone posted on Threads that no one on the app’s engineering team is a former Twitter employee.
Threads has been billed by experts as Meta’s answer to Twitter – which has faced a period of upheaval since Mr Musk completed his $44bn takeover in October last year.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief sacked half of Twitter’s 8,000 workers following his buyout.
Built by Meta’s Instagram team, Threads is billed as a home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations”.
Posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes.
They appear in a timeline, and posts can be liked, reposted, replied to, and shared elsewhere. But posts do not appear chronologically, and there seems to be no way to make it so.
People can use their existing Instagram credentials to create a Threads account.
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