Twitter has reportedly warned of taking legal action against Meta for its new text-based social media platform Threads. News site Semafor has published a letter from Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
In the letter in question, Spiro expressed serious concern that Meta is systematically, deliberately and illegally misusing Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.
“TO STOP USING THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION…”
Pointing out that Meta hired the former Twitter employee last year, Spiro claimed that the company deliberately commissioned these employees to develop Meta’s “emulated” Threads application within a few months.
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta take urgent steps to stop using any of Twitter’s trade secrets or highly confidential information,” Spiro said. used the phrase.
Twitter’s lawyer noted that the social media company reserves all its rights, including but not limited to the right to seek both legal and injunctive relief without further notice, to prevent further use of its intellectual property by Meta.
THREADS REACHED 30 MILLION
On the other hand, Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in his post on his Threads account, announced that as of this morning, the number of people registered to Threads has reached 30 million.
“Sounds like the start of something special, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us to improve the app,” Zuckerberg said. used the phrases.
Meta, the owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, launched the new social media platform Threads, a rival to Twitter, yesterday.
Zuckerberg was previously criticized for copying Snapchat and TikTok’s features on Instagram under the names “Stories” and “Reels”. (AA)