Twitter Threatens Meta from Stealing Twitter’s trade secrets to Launch their product, Threads. Meta’s evident effort to compete with Twitter is Threads. Elon Musk, on the other hand, has threatened legal action to shut down the app.
According to Semafor, Musk’s attorney wrote to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, accusing the company of deliberately obtaining Twitter’s trade secret to build Threads.
The letter claims that Twitter Threatens wanted to sue Instagram because Meta hired “dozens of former Twitter employees” with access to trade secrets and other confidential information. According to the letter, “with that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat threads app.”
The letter implies that some employees “improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices,” but no names are named. The letter also claims that the same employees violated their Twitter non-disclosure agreements after joining Meta.
The attorney then warns Zuckerberg that he may face legal action to prevent Meta from infringing on any more trade secrets and to obtain compensatory damages from the latter. Twitter “demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” according to the letter. Meta is also prohibited from crawling or scraping information on its Twitter followers or individuals it follows.
Musk, who has dismissed almost the entire Twitter staff, said, “Competition is fine, cheating is not.”
Meta, on the other hand, is disputing the charges. According to business spokesperson Andy Stone’s post, no current or former Twitter workers work on the Threads technical team.
Even still, Zuckerberg has been participating in some weird Musk teasing. His usage of the Spider-Man pointing at the Spider-Man joke in a tweet on Wednesday indicates that he is well aware that Threads is seen as a Twitter clone.
