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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over concerns about its new Threads app, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In the letter, which is addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro argues that Meta used Twitterâs trade secrets and intellectual property to build Threads.
Spiro, who is also Elon Muskâs personal lawyer and a partner at the Quinn Emanuel law firm, claims that Meta hired âdozensâ of ex-Twitter employees to develop Threads, which wouldnât be all that surprising given just how many people were fired following Muskâs takeover.
But according to Twitter, many of these former workers still have access to Twitterâs trade secrets and other confidential information. Twitter alleges that Meta took advantage of this and tasked these employees with developing a âcopycatâ app âin violation of both state and federal law.â
As a result, Twitter is threatening legal action in the form of âboth civil remedies and injunctive relief.â It also âdemands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential informationâ and says Meta isnât allowed to crawl or scrape Twitterâs data, either.
Meta responded to Twitterâs letter in a post on Threads, with communications director Andy Stone stating, âNo one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee â thatâs just not a thing.â Meta doesnât seem all too concerned about this, and that may be because Twitter isnât all that shy about threatening legal action. In May, Twitter accused Microsoft of abusing the companyâs API through integrations with some of its products.
Meta launched Threads on Wednesday night, with celebrities and brands the first to get on board. Less than 24 hours since the appâs launch, Threads has garnered over 30 million registered users, while internal data obtained by The Vergeâs Alex Heath indicates that users have already made over 95 million threads.
âCompetition is fine, cheating is not,â Musk said in a reply to a post about the letter on Twitter.
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Is there anyway I could pin this comment? đ
I would like it pinned to his eyes.
Elon can pick a lane about as well as a Tesla.
Such a dick too, like first you get fired because he doesnât understand the business he bought and is cheap, then he acts like the employees were fired for being inadequate.
Itâs so funny.
No, not like that!
I hope someone sent him this with a âthis you?â
mama says no
Where is Elonâs PR department? Man wonât stop tarnishing his own reputation.
Iâm fairly sure it doesnât take trade secrets to build a Twitter clone.
Just get your đż ready
This guy would be three steps ahead of the PR. Dude publicly mocked a guy in a wheelchair who also happened to have a 100 million dollar clause if he was fired, which he was, publicly, on Twitter while having his HIPAA information released by his CEO because he thought he was malingering.
What PR firm could get ahead of that ONE day, let alone so many others of that level of holy shit? Not one that wants to stay profitable since heâs supposedly stiffing other companies they do business with.
Well Twitter, Spotify, and Netflix are all like standard system design/architecture case studies and interview questions. Pretty sure Twitter has been invented like 300,000 times in various iterations. Itâs not exactly like CocaColaâs recipe.
It has been about a decade since his reputation stopped being âtech visionary who will save the worldâ and started being âedgy pre-teen with a credit card that has no limitâ.
I think he literally fired the PR department at Twitter, and all emails from press are auto-replied to with a poop emoji. The man is such an unfunny child.
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Imagine convincing a judge/jury that Facebook doesnât know how to make a social media site with pictures, videos, and short posts lmao
Yeah lol. Also, like itâs some big trade secret how Twitter functions.
Musk is such a douche. Anyone with half a brain and a handful of resources was salivating at the thought of luring users to an alternative.
Jesus man.
Knowing Elmo, it will come out that twitter stole facebook code or something.
I donât see how anyone could create a website that lets users post things without stealing the code. Thatâs never been done before. /s
Oh so NOW he finds Twitter employees valuable.
all 12 that remain
Thatâs actually around how many mobile developers remain there.
Do it. Let the rich eat themselves.
Well Elon⊠You couldâve avoided this if you just didnât laid them off as soon as you bought Twitter
Does anyone else feel like the core concept of Twitter is not really that interesting in the first place
Iâve gotten some decent use from Twitter over the years, and it was nice they doubled the character count, but I very much prefer places where I can read and post over one paragraph at a time. The concept of 140 characters sort of made sense when it was based on MMS, but itâs not clear if anyone ever even used that after the first couple of years. People would make longer posts by replying to themselves and chaining a dozen posts, but that is an excruciating interface for something that could just be one long post. Plus then people could âlikeâ and reply to each segment individually which is sort of chaotic.
Reddit was the only social-media like site that was geared towards and appropriate for having longer discussions, but it seems like the owners want to dumb it down into TikTok/9Gag. Iâm glad Lemmy is here for people who want to use a bunch of words at once and express complete thoughts.Me think why waste time say lot word when few word do trick. When me president, they see, they see. -Wayne Gretzky -Michael Scott -Kevin Malone
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Itâs not just you. Twitter doesnât now and never did anything Facebook doesnât already do. Itâs just a pared down Facebook experience.
Twitter was an open canvas at first, thatâs what made it appealing. The users shaped it and norms formed. Then the bad men came.
It depends on what youâre looking for. For me, Twitter is basically an RSS feed of news and people I want to hear from. Itâs not a social media network for me. Thatâs why all I want is a reverse chronological feed.
For me, Twitter is basically an RSS feed
This has been a thing Iâve been saying since twitter was purchased. For most people it was just a pretty RSS feed for whatever interests people had. Thatâs the only thing I ever used it for, for the 6 or so times I logged on over 9 years.
I wonder how many people use Twitter like that. There are so many communities that donât bubble up to the mainstream on Twitter that it makes me question whether Iâm an outlier or whether most people use it the way I do.
To you it is not.
And what would be those âtrade secretsâ? The ability to make posts and have them being read by other people? Iâm pretty sure every forum software since the '70s has prior art. Elons fragile narcissism know no bounds.
And what would be those âtrade secretsâ?
Hey Musk, your wasted $44 billion didnât buy you the Fedverse and its protocol, dipshit.
Elon can fucking suck it. Loser.
As amazing as it would be to have twitter taken down by scorned ex employees Iâm inclined to believe meta when they say there arenât any on the Instagram team. It will be fun to watch this play out not having skin in the game for either service.
itâs not even unheard of for fired/quit employees to go to a competitor, especially in the tech sector.
Thatâs like Tesla poaching Jim Keller from AMD post Zen for itâs hardware division⊠wait
Competition is fine. No not like that!
Didnât he fire those people, claim they sucked, claim that Twitterâs code sucked, and promise that his new, more hardcore guys would rewrite it all to work better?
This reminds me of somethingâŠ
What are we going to build?
A PAYWALL!
Whoâs going to pay for it?
META!The best people. Just terrific hackers or coders or whatever theyâre called. Biggly.
Damaged narcissistic minds, misfiring alike on all goddamned cylinders.
If former employees still have access to trade secrets, isnât that Twitters fault for not thoroughly revoking access for its former employees? Thatâs one of the first things you should do when someone leaves your company.
He literally fired the team in charge of that đ
