Twitter has responded to the recent release of Threads, a new social media app by Meta, with a threat of legal action against Meta’s parent company.
As reported by Semafor, Twitter’s lawyer delivered a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, expressing the company’s concerns about Meta Platforms (Meta) allegedly engaging in deliberate and illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.
In the letter Twitter intends “enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information”
The Letter partly reads reads:
“Dear Mr. Zuckerberg
I write on behalf of X Corp., as successor in interest to Twitter, Inc. (“Twitter”). Based on recent reports regarding your recently launched Threads” app, Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (“Meta”) has engaged in systematic, will ful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees.
Twitter knows that these employees previously worked at Twitter; that these employees had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information; that these employees owe ongoing obligations to Twitter; and that many of these employees have improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices. With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigned these employees to develop, in a matter of months, Meta’s copycat “Threads” gop with the specific intent that they use Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property i 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.
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,” Alex Spiro noted in the letter.
As of now, there have been no public comments from representatives of Twitter or Meta regarding the lawsuit. Meta’s launch of its competitor app to Twitter in 100 countries has been met with significant success, with the new app amassing an impressive 30 million sign-ups within a mere 24 hours of its release.
