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 staff 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 precise to hunt each civil cures and injunctive aid 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 go well with and letter on Twitter, which he purchased for $44 billion final fall.
Competitors is okay, dishonest will not be
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023
Threads, which has already garnered over 30 million subscribers, has been referred to 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), pictures, 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 staff, saying it was “not a factor.”
The authorized menace is simply the newest 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 wish to do it in another way,” 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.