Twitter to take legal action against Meta for hiring ex-Twitter employees for the Threads app

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched a friendly alternative against the Twitter app, which was released on Thursday called Threads. The app gained around 30 million users in less than a day and is linked with Instagram.

Apparently, Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro threatened the Meta owner and wrote him a letter stating to take legal against his app because of employing ex-Twitter colleagues who are well aware of Twitter’s trade secrets and other confidential information regarding the app.

Twitter claims that Meta has taken advantage by appointing fired employees to develop a copycat app which results in the violation of state and federal law. Therefore, Twitter has warned to take legal action against Meta which includes civil remedies and injunctive reliefs. It even demanded to stop the use of any of Twitter’s trade secrets and also Meta is not authorized and cannot crawl or scrap Twitter’s data.

Spiro even stated in the letter that, “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”

Meta eventually reacted to the claims by posting on the Threads app. The post was updated by Andy Stone, the communications director. He discarded the allegations by Twitter and said that none of the engineers on the Threads app have worked for Twitter before. Meta is less concerned about Twitter’s allegations as the latter has produced these kinds of legal threats in the past years also. Despite the legal threats, the Threads app has been successfully launched and is growing immensely.