Istafa Ali
Twitter to sue Threads and is thinking about going to court against Meta, the company that owns Instagram, because of a new app called Threads.
In a statement that Semafor got, Twitter says that Meta is using its trade secrets and intellectual property without permission. Alex Spiro, Elon Musk’s lawyer, wrote the letter. In it, he says that Meta hired former Twitter workers who had access to private information and may have used that information to make Threads and that seems to be the reason of Twitter to sue Threads.
In the letter, Spiro said, “We have serious concerns that Meta has stolen Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in a systematic, intentional, and illegal way.”
In answer to the claims, Meta representative Andy Stone said, “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee. That’s just not a thing.”
With the start of Threads, Elon Musk’s Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta are now competing even more. Threads, an app for text-based conversations, got a lot of attention and was signed up for by millions of people in the first 24 hours after it came out. People think that the app could be a good option to Twitter, which has had some problems while Musk has owned it.
Elon Musk has said what he thinks about the start of Threads on Twitter. In one tweet, he shared a picture that said the Threads badge looked like a tapeworm and said, “Metaphorically, too.”
Metaphorically too
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023
In another post, he talked about how important it is to compete fairly. He said, “Competition is fine, but cheating is not.”
Competition is fine, cheating is not
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023
Meta’s new app has gotten good reviews and a lot of downloads, but that doesn’t mean it will be a success. Meta has a history of putting out separate apps that were later shut down, and Threads is still in its early stages.
Elon Musk was upset that Meta released the Threads app because he thought it was an attempt to take over the social media market.
Any social media monopoly is despair
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023
Concerns about data safety have also been raised about Threads. The app came out in more than 100 countries, but because of strict privacy laws, it is not available in the European Union. Some users have concerns about how Meta collects data, and they point to the Digital Markets Act, a law that sets rules for internet companies, as a reason why they don’t fully support Threads
Read more:Threads: Ten million people have joined Meta’s newly launched app
In the tech business, it’s not unusual for people to go to court over trade secrets. Cases that have happened in the past, like the fight between Waymo and Uber, have had big effects. The result of the current fight between Twitter and Meta will have effects on both platforms and on social media as a whole.
