Recently, Mark Zuckerberg just announced the initial version of Threads, an app built by the Instagram team for sharing text. This app will offer a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations.
This social network platform is in the market to compete with Elon Musk’s Twitter. Meta’s CEO and co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg has announced the debut of Threads with an official release of the social networking giant’s new text-focused messaging app.
This platform is Meta’s first app envisioned to be compatible with an open social networking protocol that hopes by joining this fast-growing ecosystem of interoperable services, Threads will help people find their community, no matter what app they use.
There have been various reports that Twitter is considering legal action against Meta, the parent company of Facebook, over concerns related to its newly launched Threads app.
The page called Twitter Daily News shared, “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.”
Elon Musk has confirmed the same by replying to a post saying, “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”
The below is a leak of the letter sent by Spiro to Meta, as reported by @semafor.
— T(w)itter Daily News (@TitterDaily) July 6, 2023
The allegations centre on trade secrets shared by ex-Twitter employees hired by Meta, but also hints that Meta may have been scraping Twitter's data in violation of the terms of service. pic.twitter.com/Lo6usdsM7Q
In a letter sent to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro has accused the company of using the latter’s trade secrets by ‘hiring dozens of former employees of the blue-bird app’.
“Twitter claimed that its former workers still had access to its confidential information, which was taken advantage of to build a “copycat” app “in violation of both state and federal law”, the statement added.
“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”, it further stated.