Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor
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The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.

Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.

  • Aidan@lemm.ee
    461·
    1 year ago

    What part of threads could they even argue was stolen from Twitter? It’s an open source protocol plus Instagram logins. You think Facebook needed to hire people to tell them about how to post text on the internet?

    • macrocephalic@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      91·
      1 year ago

      They already had Instagram. Just take Instagram and replaced pictures and video with text. Job done. Tbh I’m not even sure why it needs a separate app instead of just adding it to insta.

      • Distributed@lemmy.ml
        9·
        1 year ago

        Compartmentalization. Instagram + Threads would just = facebook lol. Threads is their microblogging platform, instagram is their image platform, messenger/whatsapp for messaging etc.