Elon Musk Iri Mark Zuckerberg Success With Threads, Threatens To Be Sued!

JAKARTA - Elon Musk doesn't seem happy with Mark Zuckerberg's success in launching Threads. Twitter reportedly threatened Meta with lawsuits.

A Twitter attorney, Alex Spiro, has sent a letter to Zuckerberg as CEO of Meta on charges of intentional theft of trade secrets and other intellectual property.

"Meta Platforms (Meta) has been involved in the systematic, intentional and unlawful misuse of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property," Spiro wrote in a letter sent to Meta, first obtained by Semafor.

Twitter intends to strictly uphold its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using Twitter's trade secrets or other highly confidential information," he added.

Twitter claims Meta has hijacked dozens of former employees in the past year, some of whom have access to Twitter's trade secrets and very confidential information.

"Many of them store Twitter documents or electronic devices. With that knowledge, Meta deliberately assigns these employees to develop, within months, the 'Threads' app with the specific intention that they use Twitter trade secrets and other intellectual property to accelerate the development of competing applications," Spiro explained.

"Meta, violated state and federal laws and the employee's ongoing obligations to Twitter," he added.

Responding to the letter, Meta Communications Director Andy Stone posted on Threads that there were no engineers on their team who used to work on Twitter.

In addition, Twitter also asked Meta to immediately stop falsifying any data related to the platform's millions of users worldwide. In a tweet about the matter, Musk claims Meta is very cheating to make Threads.

"The competition should be fine, not cheating," Musk tweeted.

Competition is fine, cheating is not

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 6, 2023

Competition is fine, cheating is not

With this letter, it clearly means Twitter views Threads as a competitive threat. It is not known for sure whether the lawsuit will occur soon, but the letter hints the microblogging site could seek compensation from the court to stop Meta from acting further.

The new text-based application launched yesterday to rival Twitter. Meta says Threads have collected 30 million registrations in less than 24 hours after launch.

To use the application, users must connect their Instagram account. This was quoted from Slashgear and CNN International, Friday, July 7.