Meta’s new Threads social community app is the most important speak in tech proper now after formally launching yesterday and scoring 48 million sign-ups in its first day. Twitter has now issued a authorized letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg concerning its intent to take authorized motion towards Meta for “illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and mental property”.
Twitter’s authorized letter adressed to Mark Zuckerberg
The accusation alleges Meta employed dozens of former Twitter workers with entry to Twitter commerce secrets and techniques and IP which Meta used to its benefit in growing its Threads social networking app. The letter bluntly describes Threads as a Twitter “copy-cat app” and calls for that Meta cease utilizing Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and different confidential info as such actions go towards state and federal legal guidelines. The letter additionally reminds Meta it’s not allowed to crawl or scrape Twitter’s knowledge.
Meta’s communications consultant issued a brief assertion which refutes Twitter’s claims and states that no individual on the Threads engineering staff beforehand labored for Twitter.
