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Twitter threatens to sue Meta over rival app Threads
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July 11, 2023
Original URL: https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Twitter_threatens_to_sue_Meta_over_rival_app_Threads



On Wednesday, an attorney for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta
Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg alleging his company stole trade secrets
to help create a "copycat" rival app, Threads.

The letter accused Meta of "systemic, wilful, and unlawful
misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual
property", including by hiring "dozens" of employees who "had and
continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly
confidential information". It demanded that "Meta take immediate steps
to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential
information".

In a tweet, Elon Musk, who bought Twitter for US$44 billion last year,
said regarding the letter that "competition is fine, cheating is not".

The Threads app interface is similar to Twitter's, allowing users to
write 500-character posts, as well as replying to, reposting, and
quoting other users' posts. In a post on the platform, Zuckerberg
expressed his optimism about the future of Threads: "It'll take some
time, but I think there should be a public conversations app with 1
billion+ people on it. Twitter has had the opportunity to do this but
hasn't nailed it. Hopefully we will."

Within two days of Threads' release in over 100 countries, over 70
million users had signed up, according to head of Instagram Adam
Mosseri. However, it has yet to be released in the European Union,
reportedly due to Meta's uncertainty about restrictions imposed by the
Digital Markets Act the bloc passed last year.

== Sources ==
* https://www.threads.net/t/CuZtuS5NOgV
* https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66129215
* https://news.stv.tv/world/elon-musks-twitter-threatens-to-sue-facebook-owner-meta-over-rival-app-threads
* https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/06/why-has-threads-metas-answer-to-twitter-not-launched-in-the-eu
* https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/06/tech/instagram-threads-app-explained/index.html
* https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/twitter-elon-musk-timeline-what-happened-so-far-rcna57532



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