Twitter has threatened to sue Meta over its new Threads app, accusing the company of violating Twitter’s “intellectual property rights”.
This was stated in a letter from Twitter attorney Alex Spiro to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, which was first made public by the news source Semafor.
Spiro, a partner in the Quinn Emanuel law firm and Elon Musk’s personal attorney, claims in the letter that Meta utilized Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property to create Threads.
“Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta’) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.
“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”, witter lawyer Alex Spiro wrote in a letter released Thursday.
He also claimed that Meta hired “dozens” of ex-Twitter employees to develop “copycat” software (Thread) and many of these former workers still have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other confidential information.
According to Meta report, Threads garnered 30m sign-ups in less than 24 hours after launching, apparently making it the most rapidly downloaded app ever.