{"id":32169,"date":"2023-07-12T14:16:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T14:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/twitter-likely-to-take-legal-action-against-meta-for-threads"},"modified":"2023-07-12T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T14:24:09","slug":"twitter-likely-to-take-legal-action-against-meta-for-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/twitter-likely-to-take-legal-action-against-meta-for-threads","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Likely To Take Legal Action Against Meta for Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over its new text-based platform called Threads, Semafor has reported.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Spiro, Twitter owner Elon Musk\u2019s personal lawyer, sent a letter to Meta\u2019s CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of poaching dozens of former employees and using Twitter\u2019s trade secrets and intellectual property to create a \u201ccopycat\u201d application, according to a copy of the email viewed by Semafor.<\/p>\n<p>Spiro demanded that Meta immediately stop using Twitter\u2019s confidential information. Threads, which launched Wednesday and has skyrocketed to 30 million profiles and 95 million posts overnight, according to the Verge, is already a significant competitor to Twitter, benefiting from Meta\u2019s resources and access to a large user base through Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Spiro\u2019s letter is part of an ongoing exchange of jabs between Musk and Zuckerberg, which kicked off when Musk tweeted about being up for a \u201ccage fight\u201d with Zuckerberg, who responded by sharing a screenshot of the tweet with the caption \u201csend me location.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the billionaire boxing match arose after an internal Meta meeting obtained by the Verge was published, where Meta\u2019s chief product officer Chris Cox discussed Meta\u2019s Twitter competitor, Threads, being \u201csanely run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d Representatives for Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to Fortune\u2018s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\">Mauritius<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta, the parent company of Instagram, over its new text-based platform called Threads, Semafor has reported. 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