Twitter has threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform.
The company has written to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to say it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, according to news site Semafor, citing a letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro.
“It demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Mr Spiro reportedly wrote in the letter.
Twitter owner Elon Musk posted on his own platform: “Competition is fine, cheating is not,” in response to the report.
It comes after Meta launched its new Threads platform overnight on Wednesday.
By Thursday afternoon, the tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, claimed there had been 30 million sign-ups to the new platform.
Threads has been billed by experts as Meta’s answer to Twitter – which has faced a period of upheaval since Mr Musk completed his $44bn takeover in October last year.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief sacked half of Twitter’s 8,000 workers following his buyout.
He also removed the previous verification system – based on notability – and replaced it with his own paid-for Twitter Blue scheme.
According to Semafor, Mr Spiro, in his letter, accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone responded to the story in a post on Threads.
He wrote: “To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee – that’s just not a thing’.”
Built by Meta’s Instagram team, Threads is billed as a home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations”.Users react to Meta’s launch of Threads
Posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes.
They appear in a timeline, and posts can be liked, reposted, replied to, and shared elsewhere. But posts do not appear chronologically, and there seems to be no way to make it so.
People can use their existing Instagram credentials to create a Threads account.
Both Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg have acknowledged the rivalry over Threads, which is linked to Instagram but works as a standalone app.
As it launched in 100 countries, Mr Zuckerberg broke more than 11 years of silence on Twitter to post a highly popular meme of two nearly identical Spider-Man figures pointing at each other, indicating a stand-off.
Shortly after, and as the word “Threads” trended globally on his platform, Mr Musk said: “It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.”
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Twitter has threatened to sue Facebook owner Meta over its new Threads platform.
The company has written to Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg to say it “intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, according to news site Semafor, citing a letter from Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro.
“It demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Mr Spiro reportedly wrote in the letter.
Twitter owner Elon Musk posted on his own platform: “Competition is fine, cheating is not,” in response to the report.
It comes after Meta launched its new Threads platform overnight on Wednesday.
By Thursday afternoon, the tech giant, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, claimed there had been 30 million sign-ups to the new platform.
Threads has been billed by experts as Meta’s answer to Twitter – which has faced a period of upheaval since Mr Musk completed his $44bn takeover in October last year.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief sacked half of Twitter’s 8,000 workers following his buyout.
He also removed the previous verification system – based on notability – and replaced it with his own paid-for Twitter Blue scheme.
According to Semafor, Mr Spiro, in his letter, accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”.
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone responded to the story in a post on Threads.
He wrote: “To be clear: ‘No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee – that’s just not a thing’.”
Built by Meta’s Instagram team, Threads is billed as a home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations”.Users react to Meta’s launch of Threads
Posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photos, and videos of up to five minutes.
They appear in a timeline, and posts can be liked, reposted, replied to, and shared elsewhere. But posts do not appear chronologically, and there seems to be no way to make it so.
People can use their existing Instagram credentials to create a Threads account.
Both Mr Musk and Mr Zuckerberg have acknowledged the rivalry over Threads, which is linked to Instagram but works as a standalone app.
As it launched in 100 countries, Mr Zuckerberg broke more than 11 years of silence on Twitter to post a highly popular meme of two nearly identical Spider-Man figures pointing at each other, indicating a stand-off.
Shortly after, and as the word “Threads” trended globally on his platform, Mr Musk said: “It is infinitely preferable to be attacked by strangers on Twitter, than indulge in the false happiness of hide-the-pain Instagram.”
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