Twitter notifies Meta for potential legal action over Threads
Metaâs new Threads social network app is the biggest talk in tech right now after officially launching yesterday and scoring 48 million sign-ups in its first day. Twitter has now issued a legal letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg regarding its intent to take legal action against Meta for âunlawful misappropriation of Twitterâs trade secrets and intellectual propertyâ.
The accusation alleges Meta hired dozens of former Twitter employees with access to Twitter trade secrets and IP which Meta used to its advantage in developing its Threads social networking app. The letter bluntly describes Threads as a Twitter âcopy-cat appâ and demands that Meta stop using Twitterâs trade secrets and other confidential information as such actions go against state and federal laws. The letter also reminds Meta it is not allowed to crawl or scrape Twitterâs data.
Metaâs communications representative issued a short statement which refutes Twitterâs claims and states that no person on the Threads engineering team previously worked for Twitter.