Twitter Threatens to Sue Meta Over Threads: Report

Twitter is threatening authorized motion towards Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, Semafor reported on Thursday, citing a letter despatched to the Fb mum or dad’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro.

“Twitter intends to strictly implement its mental property rights, and calls for that Meta take speedy steps to cease utilizing any Twitter commerce secrets and techniques or different extremely confidential info,” Spiro wrote within the letter.

Meta launched Threads on Wednesday because the social media agency appears to be like to tackle Elon Musk’s Twitter by making the most of Instagram’s billions of customers.

Meta and Spiro didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark.

In the meantime, Analysts have stated Threads’ ties to Instagram would possibly give it a built-in consumer base and promoting equipment. That might siphon advert {dollars} from Twitter at a time when its new CEO is attempting to revive its struggling enterprise.

Whereas Threads launched as a standalone app, customers can log in utilizing their Instagram credentials and observe the identical accounts, doubtlessly making it a straightforward addition to current habits for Instagram’s greater than 2 billion month-to-month lively customers.

“Buyers can not help however be somewhat excited concerning the prospect that Meta actually has a ‘Twitter-Killer’,” stated Danni Hewson, head of economic evaluation at funding agency AJ Bell.

Others noticed the launch of Threads as a possibility to create a much less poisonous model of Twitter.

“Might this platform have good vibes, robust group, wonderful humor, and fewer harassment,” Ocasio-Cortez stated in her publish.

Very similar to Twitter, the app options quick textual content posts that customers can like, re-post and reply to, though it doesn’t embody any direct message capabilities. Posts will be as much as 500 characters lengthy and embody hyperlinks, photographs and movies as much as 5 minutes lengthy, in keeping with a Meta weblog publish.

It’s accessible in additional than 100 international locations on each Apple’s App Retailer and Google’s Play Retailer, the weblog publish stated.

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