Twitter to sue Meta over ‘copycat’ Threads platform

Twitter, led by Elon Musk, has issued a authorized risk towards Meta (previously Facebook) over their new platform, Instagram Threads. The Twitter lawyer, Alex Spiro, accused Meta of unlawfully utilizing Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and poaching former workers to create an identical platform.

Within simply 24 hours, Threads gained over 30 million customers. Spiro despatched a letter to Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, demanding that they stop utilizing any confidential info belonging to Twitter. Twitter intends to defend its mental property rights by authorized motion if essential.

“Twitter intends to strictly implement its mental property rights, and calls for that Meta take fast steps to cease utilizing any Twitter commerce secrets and techniques or different extremely confidential info,” Spiro wrote in her letter.

“Twitter reserves all rights, together with, however not restricted to, the suitable to search each civil treatments and injunctive reduction with out additional discover to stop any additional retention, disclosure, or use of its mental property by Meta,” the Twitter lawyer added.

Spiro additionally claimed that Meta had employed a number of former Twitter workers who had entry to Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques. Elon Musk stated in a tweet on Friday: “Competition is ok, dishonest is just not.”

In response, Meta‘s communications director, Andy Stone, dismissed Twitter’s accusations as unfounded, stating that no members of the Threads engineering staff had been former Twitter workers.

“No one on the Threads engineering staff is a former Twitter worker – that is simply not a factor,” he was quoted as saying.

Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino appealed to the Twitter neighborhood, acknowledging the significance of everybody’s voice and emphasizing that the Twitter neighborhood is exclusive and can’t be replicated.

“Whether you are right here to watch historical past unfold, uncover real-time info all over the world, share your opinions, or find out about others — on Twitter you will be actual,” Yaccarino posted. “You constructed the Twitter neighborhood. And that is irreplaceable. This is your public sq.,” she added.

Yaccarino stated that “we are sometimes imitated however the Twitter neighborhood can by no means be duplicated”.