Twitter accuses Meta of stealing trade secrets and techniques for its new Threads application

Twitter’s lawyer wrote a letter to Facebook guardian Meta on Wednesday, accusing the organization of “systematic” and “unlawful misappropriation” of trade tricks adhering to the start of its Threads services.

The letter from longtime Elon Musk attorney Alex Spiro alleged that Meta’s new Twitter clone was designed by previous Twitter staff “intentionally assigned” to create a “copycat” application. Semafor was initial to report on the letter.

Spiro offered no concrete examples of Twitter workers working with trade secrets and techniques to construct the app, which notched tens of millions of people within hrs of its start. But the concept — despatched on exact same working day that Threads opened to the public — shows Musk’s stage of issue given Meta’s userbase and technological capacities.

Given that Musk’s $44 billion invest in of Twitter in Oct, the web-site has been riddled with challenges, such as some advertisers suspending their strategies. Musk has significantly downsized the organization, leaving it slow to respond to glitches.

Spiro said Meta is “expressly prohibited” from crawling or scraping Twitter’s follower information, without offering evidence that Meta has engaged in that exercise. Musk earlier alleged that scraping of Twitter person knowledge transpired on a massive scale, nevertheless he, too, neglected of present certain examples.

On Thursday, Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino tweeted that the company was “often imitated,” a distinct reference to Threads.

Threads has currently launched with illustration from important brands and stars. The application continue to lacks some significant features, together with a world-wide-web app, and just isn’t however producing revenue.

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