Mark Zuckerberg celebrates that Threads has surpassed 30 million users in less than 24 hours, an amazing achievement for an application that, despite benefiting from Instagram’s muscle, is new. At the same time, Twitter’s legal team has sent a letter addressed to Meta in which it lists a series of accusations that could lead to a court battle, according to Semafor.
The lawyer of X Corp., the parent company of Elon Musk’s social media company, notes that they have serious concerns that Meta has been involved in ”systematic, deliberate and illegal misappropriation of trade secrets and other intellectual property”. The way to access this information would have been by hiring former Twitter employees.
At the gates of a possible court battle
From the company now led by Linda Yaccarino, they claim that the people hired by Meta “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.” As a result, they claim, they still have obligations to the platform and that, in some cases, they have even kept some documents and electronic devices.
The accusations go even further. The letter states that Meta consciously assigned the employees in question to the Threads development project to launch it “within months.” All this, using Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property in an act that violates US state and federal laws. The text closes with an “immediate” request for the firm headed by Zuckerberg.
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It asks that he “stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.” And they prohibit “the tracking or extraction of data from Twitter.” Otherwise, they warn, they reserve the rights to launch judicial remedies. It’s time to wait to see how this situation will evolve and if Meta will provide public statements about it.
Threads is the new, and at the moment the strongest, rival of Twitter. The Meta application dependent on Instagram has been conceived to share textual messages and encourage its users to be part of public conversations. In addition, its creators assure, in the future it will be able to interoperate with other applications that support the ActivityPub protocol, such as Mastodon.
Faced with the umpteenth Twitter chaos generated by Elon Musk, many are looking for an alternative. It’s still not Mastodon
In its first hours available to the public, Threads has reached a surprising milestone: more than 30 million users while Twitter locks itself in paid functions. This scenario takes place at a time when Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg seem to be taking their rivalry to the next level. The moguls, despite their disagreements, suggest that they will face each other in a cage wrestling match at The Octagon, Las Vegas.
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