The battle between Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads and Elon Musk’s Twitter is heating up — Twitter is threatening to sue Meta for “systematic, willful, and illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and different mental property.”
A letter written by Twitter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, accused Meta and Threads of utilizing “commerce secrets and techniques” by hiring dozens of ex-Twitter workers to assist construct and roll out the brand new platform, calling it a “copycat” of Twitter’s unique platform.
“Twitter reserves all rights, together with, however not restricted to, the correct to hunt each civil cures and injunctive reduction with out additional discover to forestall any additional retention, disclosure, or use of its mental property by Meta,” the letter reads.
Musk confirmed the proposed swimsuit and letter on Twitter, which he purchased for $44 billion final fall.
Competitors is ok, dishonest isn’t
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023
Threads, which has already garnered over 30 million subscribers, has been known as a “Twitter copycat” or a “Twitter killer,” relying on who you ask. The app permits customers to submit textual content (as much as 500 characters), photographs, and movies.
Andy Stone, director of communications at Meta, addressed the letter in a Thread and denied allegations that the corporate was hiring former Twitter workers, saying it was “not a factor.”
The authorized menace is simply the most recent information within the ongoing feud between Zuckerberg and Musk. Final month, the billionaires took it so far as proposing a cage-fighting match.
“Twitter by no means succeeded as a lot as I feel it ought to have, and we need to do it otherwise,” Zuckerberg stated in a Thread of his personal when the platform formally launched this week.
Meta was up over 70.8% year-over-year as of Thursday morning.
