Twitter Threatens Lawsuit Over Instagram Threads
By Joshua Levin
Published July 11, 2023 | Updated February 18, 2024 at 10:34 am
Twitter threatened to sue Meta for alleged intellectual property violations relating to the launch of Instagram Threads.
According to news website Semafor and confirmed by Reuters, Twitter had Attorney Alex Spiro send a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatening legal action because they hired former Twitter employees.
“Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop […] Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in violation of both state and federal law,” Spiro wrote.
“Competition is fine, cheating is not,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk stated in a Twitter comment.
Meta denies Twitter’s claims. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” Meta Spokesperson Andy Stone stated in a Threads post.
“💩,” Twitter wrote in response to The Terabyte Tribune’s request for comment.
The Terabyte Tribune will continue to cover this story as it develops
By Joshua Levin
Published July 11, 2023 | Updated February 18, 2024 at 10:34 am
Twitter threatened to sue Meta for alleged intellectual property violations relating to the launch of Instagram Threads.
According to news website Semafor and confirmed by Reuters, Twitter had Attorney Alex Spiro send a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg threatening legal action because they hired former Twitter employees.
“Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop […] Meta’s copycat ‘Threads’ app with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property in violation of both state and federal law,” Spiro wrote.
“Competition is fine, cheating is not,” Twitter CEO Elon Musk stated in a Twitter comment.
Meta denies Twitter’s claims. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” Meta Spokesperson Andy Stone stated in a Threads post.
“💩,” Twitter wrote in response to The Terabyte Tribune’s request for comment.
The Terabyte Tribune will continue to cover this story as it develops