Rival Twitter has warned of a lawsuit against the app Threads, which has garnered more than 30 million users since its launch, saying Threads infringes on Twitter's "intellectual property rights".
Threads, an app launched by Meta to beat the struggling micro-blogging platform Twitter in the social media market, has been embroiled in legal tangles just hours after its launch. Threads, an app that has garnered over 30 million users since launch, has been threatened with a lawsuit by a rival company, saying Threads infringes on Twitter's "intellectual property rights"
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro has written to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing him of 'unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property'. This letter was first published by the newspaper 'Semaphore'.
The letter accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who 'had and continue to have access to Twitter trade secrets and other highly confidential information...'
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
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Alex Spiro wrote in the letter, "Twitter intends to vigorously uphold its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using Twitter's trade secrets or other highly confidential information... "
Elon Musk replied to a tweet referring to the same news, saying, "Competition is fine, dishonesty is not..."
Meta has claimed in its defence that there are no ex-Twitter employees on the Threads engineering team.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on Threads, "Nobody on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - there's never been..."
Threads are the biggest challenge for Elon Musk-owned Twitter so far. Even before this, many competitors came in front of Twitter, facing the struggle, but no one could replace Twitter, one of the world's largest social media platforms.
On Threads, users can post text and links and reply to or repost others' messages - very similar to Twitter.
Instagram and Facebook are also products of Meta, and they have a long and successful history of copying their competitors' products in the Internet world. The company's Reels feature was an imitation of TikTok's viral video app, and Meta introduced the disappearing Stories feature after Snapchat hit the market.
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