Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new text-based platform, accusing the social media heavyweight of poaching former employees to develop a “copycat” application.
Recently, Instagram’s parent company, Meta, launched Threads, a text-based companion to Instagram that looks like Twitter and other text-based social platforms.
Zuckerberg later announced that Threads had already signed up no fewer than 30 million users on its first day, vastly displacing competitors.
Twitter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, has sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
Part of the letter read: “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.
“Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta.”
Spiro accused Meta of employing dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”
Also, he alleged that Meta assigned those employees to develop “Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of Meta’s competing app, in violation of both state and federal law as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.”
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