Meta just launched Threads a couple of days ago, and it already has 30 million sign-ups, according to Mark Zuckerberg in his Threads post. But it is not without obstacles, as Twitter threatens to take Meta to court over it.
Reuters reports that in a letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro has issued a threat of legal action against Meta due to their recently launched Threads platform.
In the letter, Spiro accuses Meta of hiring ex-Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”. Spiro also stated that “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”.
According to Meta spokeperson Andy Stone, he said that “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee—that’s just not a thing” in his Threads post.
Furthermore, a former senior employee of Twitter said that they had no knowledge of any former colleagues working on Threads or any high-ranking personnel joining Meta. In response to a tweet sharing this news, Twitter owner Elon Musk stated, “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”
We think they should resume the cancelled fight and just settle this MMA-style.
