Twitter Threatens Legal Action Over Meta's Threads, Calls It A 'Copycat' App

Twitter is threatening Mark Zuckerberg's Meta with legal action over its new social media app Threads that was launched yesterday. Threads has been touted as the Twitter Killer and has already amassed a large user base globally.

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While the app still isn't available in the EU, it is already in hot soup. Elon Musk-owned Twitter is now planning to sue Meta for its Twitter "copycat" app, alleging that it was built by hiring former Twitter employees and using the company's trade secrets, a letter posted by Semafor showed.

. @semafor exclusive: Elon's lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg threatening legal action, claiming that Meta hired former Twitter employees to create a clone https://t.co/Kqq1bwWgGw

¡ª Max Tani (@maxwelltani) July 6, 2023

Is Threads in trouble?

The letter was penned by Alex Spiro of the law firm Quinn Emanuel. While Meta hasn't officially responded to the email, the company's communications director Andy Stone wrote on Threads - "No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee ¡ª that's just not a thing."

In 18 hours, Threads has amassed over 30 million new users, according to Mark Zuckerberg. In terms of the look and feel, Threads feels very similar to Twitter and lets users post content, like, or repost it in a fashion that is very Twitter-like.

Also read: Meta's Twitter Rival 'Threads' Is Here: Here's How To Use It

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The app is riding on the popularity of Instagram, allowing users to set up their accounts by linking it to the social media app. This way, users can follow their current Instagram userbase.

"Our vision is to take the best parts of Instagram and create a new experience for text, ideas and discussing what's on your mind," Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an Instagram post. "I think the world needs this kind of friendly community, and I'm grateful to all of you who are part of Threads from day one," he added.

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Also read: Twitter Killer? Over 30 Million People Have Joined Zuckerberg's 'Threads'

Competition is fine, cheating is not

¡ª Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023

On Thursday, Elon Musk hit back at Threads, saying that "competition is fine, cheating is not." Currently, many Twitter users are unhappy with the app, given its limits that restrict how much content free users can interact with.

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