Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Its Threads Competitor

Twitter’s allegations are critical, however a Meta spokesperson informed Semafor that the Threads group had no former Twitter workers in its ranks, and Fb communications director Andy Stone seemingly confirmed that with a thread. However Twitter shouldn’t be merely focusing on Meta over its alleged “illegal misappropriation” of copyright-protected data. The Elon Musk-owned social media platform has additionally directed Meta to instantly pause the alleged scraping of any information linked to the tens of millions of Twitter customers throughout the globe. In a tweet on the matter, Elon Musk took a jab at Meta, suggesting that it cheated to create Threads:

Competitors is ok, dishonest shouldn’t be

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023

Musk, who just lately vacated the CEO position and employed Linda Yaccarino to guide the corporate, is not a fan of information scraping. In April 2023, he even threatened Microsoft with authorized motion over allegations that it improperly obtained and used Twitter information to coach its AI fashions. That lawsuit hasn’t materialized thus far. However in Meta’s case, it appears like a court docket showdown is imminent. Twitter has requested Meta to maintain all of the hiring-related paperwork prepared, supposedly towards utilizing them as protection materials in court docket. 

Taking a look at threads, it seems that Meta took liberal inspiration from Twitter, generously imitating the UI and copying among the core features akin to likes, reposting, and sharing — although, to be honest, these options aren’t distinctive to Twitter. The largest core distinction is that Meta has integrally tied Threads to Instagram, and with such aggressive zeal that you’ll have to delete your Instagram account if you happen to ever want to do away with your Threads account.