Twitter threatens legal action over Threads app
Regarding Meta’s quickly expanding rival program Threads, Twitter is considering taking legal action against Meta. The company behind Threads app , which was introduced to millions of people on Wednesday, has positioned it as a “friendly” substitute for Twitter. Elon Musk of Twitter claimed that “competition is fine, cheating is not,” but Meta refuted this accusation in a legal letter, denying that any ex-Twitter employees were involved in the creation of Threads app. According to Meta, more than 30 million users have downloaded the new app. Incredibly Familiar According to James Clayton, a technology correspondent for BBC News, Threads has a look and feel that is comparable to Twitter’s. The news stream and the reposting, according to him, were “incredibly familiar.” Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, charging Meta of “systematic, wilful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” in order to e...