Meta’s new Threads social networking app is the biggest tech talk right now following its official launch yesterday and scoring 48 million signups on its first day. Twitter has now issued a legal letter addressed to Mark Zuckerberg regarding its intention to pursue legal action against Meta for “misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property.”
Twitter’s legal letter to Mark Zuckerberg
The indictment alleges that Meta hired dozens of former Twitter employees with access to Twitter trade secrets and IPs that Meta used to its advantage in developing its Threads social networking app. The letter bluntly describes Threads as a Twitter “copy-cat app” and asks Meta to stop using Twitter’s trade secrets and other confidential information as such actions go against state and federal laws. The letter also reminds Meta that it is not permitted to crawl or scrap Twitter data.
Meta’s communications rep released a brief statement refuting Twitter’s claims and saying that no person on Threads’ engineering team has previously worked for Twitter.
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