Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over considerations 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 Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and mental property to construct Threads.
However in keeping with Twitter, many of those former employees nonetheless have entry to Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and different confidential info. Twitter alleges that Meta took benefit of this and tasked these staff with creating a “copycat” app “in violation of each state and federal regulation.”
In consequence, Twitter is threatening authorized motion within the type of “each civil cures and injunctive aid.” It additionally “calls for that Meta take speedy steps to cease utilizing any Twitter commerce secrets and techniques or different extremely confidential info” and says Meta isn’t allowed to crawl or scrape Twitter’s knowledge, both.
Meta responded to Twitter’s letter in a post on Threads, with communications director Andy Stone stating, “Nobody on the Threads engineering group is a former Twitter worker — that’s simply not a factor.” Meta doesn’t appear all too involved about this, and which may be as a result of Twitter isn’t all that shy about threatening authorized motion. In Might, Twitter accused Microsoft of abusing the corporate’s API by means of integrations with a few of its merchandise.
Replace July sixth, 4:15PM ET: Up to date so as to add a response from Elon Musk.