CALIFORNIA: Twitter has threatend fellow social-media company Meta with legal action over its new rival text app Threads.
In a letter addressed to Meta Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg , Twitter’s legal counsel Alex Spiro accused Meta of hiring Twitter employees to make a “copycat” text app, and of stealing the trade secrets of Twitter and intellectual property, Western media reported on Friday.
Spiro said Twitter intended to strongly enforce its intellectual property rights and the letter was a formal notice to Meta to preserve all relevant papers in light of possible legal action.
Andy Stone, Meta spokesman, responded to Spiro accusations, pinning on the new app that no one in the engineering team of the Threads is a former Twitter employee.
Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for 44 billion dollars in 2022, has not publicly commented on the issue. Nor has Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino.
Threads, which the social media giant Meta launched Wednesday night, was created by its Instagram employees and has already grabbed tens of millions of users in just twenty four hours.
