Twitter threatens to sue Meta over the Threads app

 By: News Peddlers 

Twitter and Thread

In a recent development, Twitter has reportedly threatened legal action against Meta, Facebook's parent company, over the release of its Threads app.

Meta launched the Threads app on Thursday as part of its suite of social networking apps, allowing users to engage in threaded conversations and discussions.

The app's concept is similar to Twitter's core functionality, in that users can reply to and build on existing tweets in a conversational manner.

Twitter claims that the Threads app infringes on its intellectual property rights and violates certain terms of service.

Twitter is concerned that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful, and illegal misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and intellectual property.

Spiro also charges Meta with recruiting a large number of former Twitter employees who "had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information."

He claims that Meta assigned these employees to develop the Threads app with the explicit intent of using Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property 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.