Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Rival Threads
New York: Twitter has threatened to sue Meta after the latter launched the Threads app attracting users. As lar Twitter News, the micro-blogging platform 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. The same has been communicated to Mark Zuckerberg by Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro. Reacting to the news, Musk said, “Competition is fine, cheating is not”, hinting that a big legal battle is on the cards over Threads app.
Twitter claimed that Meta has violated Twitter’s “intellectual property rights”, reported The Guardian citing news outlet Semafor. Twitter Daily News tweeted the said letter in which Spiro said that Twitter “has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”.
“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,” Alex Spiro wrote in the letter.
Notably, Meta launched Threads, a text-based conversation app intended to rival Twitter, on Wednesday. According to The Guardian, the company said Threads garnered 30 million sign-ups in less than 24 hours after launching, apparently making it the most rapidly downloaded app ever. Threads accounts are linked to Instagram profiles, making the process to sign up seamless between apps and giving the Twitter copycat a built-in user base.
Zuckerberg said Threads was Meta’s attempt at taking a shot to build a “public conversations app with 1bn+ people” – an opportunity that Twitter had but “hasn’t nailed”.
“This is as good of a start as we could have hoped for!” Zuckerberg added in a thread on Thursday.
