Threads seriously threatens the reign of Twitter. Meta’s new microblogging social network has surpassed one hundred million users in less than five days on the market, according to data from Quiver Quantitative, making it the fastest growing platform in history. And it has not yet reached Europe.
The battle between both social networks promises to be long and arduous. Just like the confrontation between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, which has only just begun. The Twitter chief has come to say that “Zuckerberg is a cuckold.” And the owner of Meta has decided to troll the South African tycoon a bit in a particular way: repeating the same word in hundreds of responses, in true Musk style.
The Meta CEO responded to two Threads posts simply by commenting “worrying,” along with a laughing and crying emoji, which seemed to reference the way Musk often tweets, according to Insider.
Zuckerberg first responded with that reaction when social media entrepreneur Nikita Bier joked about a user leaving the bluebird platform.
Some users were openly talking about censorship against Threads. “Looks like Threads is censored from Trending. It’s unlikely this wouldn’t be in the top 30 US trends in the last day. It makes sense, but it also shows how hard it is to stick to your principles when it goes against the odds.” their interests,” wrote specialist Philip Fung.
Musk has not wasted a minute charging against Threads, Meta’s new microblogging social network that seeks to compete with Twitter, which is not going through its best moment. Company attorney Alex Spiro sent a letter to the director to Zuckerberg, accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secret or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in a letter published Thursday by the specialized media Semafor. .
Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to the company’s trade secrets.”
In addition, it accuses Threads of “using Twitter trade secrets and other intellectual property to expedite the development of Meta’s competing app, in violation of state and federal laws, as well as those employees’ ongoing obligations to Twitter.”
