Twitter has reportedly threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform.
The company has written to Yuan bushing mark Zuckerberg saying it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, According to the news site Semaforciting a paper from Twitter Attorney Alex Spiro.
“It demands that Meta take immediate steps to cease using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Spiro reportedly wrote in the letter.
Twitter owner Elon Musk responded to the report with a post on his platform: “Competition is good, cheating is not.”
it appears after Meta launches new Threads platform Overnight Wednesday.
The tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, claimed 30 million signups for the new platform as of Thursday afternoon.
Meta’s new Threads platform.Image: Yuan
Threads is what pundits call Meta’s answer to Twitter — which has been through a tumultuous period since Musk’s $44 billion acquisition last October.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO laid off half of Twitter’s 8,000 employees after the acquisition.
He also removed the previous popularity-based verification system and replaced it with his own paid Twitter Blue scheme.
In his letter, Spiro accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information,” according to Semafor.
Meta spokesman Andy Stone responded to the report in a Threads post.
“To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is an ex-Twitter employee – it’s not the same thing,'” he wrote.
Built by Meta Instagram Among the teams, Threads is billed as the home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations.”
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Posts can be up to 500 characters in length and include links, photos and videos up to five minutes long.
They appear in the timeline, and posts can be liked, retweeted, replied to, and shared elsewhere. But the posts don’t appear in chronological order, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that.
People can use their existing Instagram credentials to create a Threads account.
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Usernames and verifications can be preserved, meaning Threads can quickly aggregate celebrities, athletes, politicians, sports clubs, news outlets (including sky news) and brands already using Instagram.
Early adopters include Netflix and Star Wars accounts, chef Gordon Ramsay, pop star Shakira, actor Zac Efron, Formula 1 driver Lando Norris, NBA star Seth Curry, and of course Mark Zuckerberg himself.
The threat of legal action between Twitter and Meta comes after their respective CEOs, Musk and Zuckerberg, spoke out about the prospect of a cage fight between them.
In discussions about plans Threads, Meta’s rival Twitter appMusk tweeted, “I’m sure Earth can’t wait to be fully under Zack’s control,” before adding, “If he was, I’d be ready for a cage race lol.”
Zuckerberg was hooked. He posted “Send me your location” along with a screenshot of Musk’s message on Instagram.
Musk’s answer was simple: “Vegas Octagon,” the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) arena in Las Vegas.
UFC president Dana White also weighed in, according to TMZ: “Both of these guys are absolutely serious about it.”