After Meta launched the Threads application, Twitter has threatened to sue the latter, claiming over its ‘systematic, wilful and unlawful misappropriation’ of Twitter’s trade secrets and IP, as well as scraping of data, according to Twitter News. The same has been told to Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg by Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro.
Since Zuckerberg’s Thread app is attracting users, it has sparked a conversation between the two big social media companies that the ruling the entire globe. Reacting to the news, Twitter CEO Elon Musk said, “ Competition is fine, cheating is not”, hinting that a big legal battle is on the cards over the latest Threads app.
Taking notes from the situation, the micro-blogging platform, Twitter claimed that Meta has violated its ‘intellectual property rights’, said the media reports.
Taking it to Twitter, Twitter Daily News shared the official letter to Mark Zuckerberg by Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro. The letter 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”.
Further, Alex Spiro said, “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.”
On Wednesday, Meta launched the Threads application, which is a text-based conversation app intended to rival Twitter. Since the app has launched, the company said it garnered over 30 million sign-ups in less than 24 hours, being one of the most rapidly downloaded applications.
Also, Threads accounts are linked to Instagram profiles, making the process to sign up seamless between apps and giving Twitter a tough fight and a copycat a built-in user base.
Meta’s Zuckerberg said that Threads was the company’s attempt at taking a shot to build a ‘public conversations app with over 1 billion people.’ Taking a swipe at Twitter, he said that it is an opportunity that Twitter had but ‘hasn’t nailed.’
Just a day after its launch, Zuckerberg added in a thread, “This is as good of a start as we could have hoped for!”
Whilst, Elon Musk’s Twitter has claimed in the cease-and-desist that Meta has poached dozens of former employees in the past year, some of whom ‘had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information’ and ‘many’ of whom have ‘improperly’ kept Twitter documents or electronic devices.
“With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property to accelerate the development of Meta’s competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter,” the letter said.
Moreover, the company added that Meta was “prohibited” from scraping data from any Twitter service.
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