Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new text-based app called Threads, which has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this...
Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote Thursday on Threads: “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing.”Thursday, Spiro said Twitter"intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights" and noted the company's right to seek civil remedies or a court injunction.He said the letter marked a “formal notice” for Meta to preserve documents relevant for a potential dispute between the companies.
The Associated Press reached out to Spiro on Thursday for further information. Twitter responded to an email seeking comment with a crude automated reply, its standard response to journalists.New Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has not publicly commented on the letter but appeared to address Threads' launch.
But success isn't guaranteed. Industry watchers point to Meta’s track record of starting standalone apps that were later shut down and note that Threads is still in its early days.Besides some glitches and gripes about missing features, Meta’s new app also has raised data privacy concerns. While Threads launched in more than 100 countries, it is notably unavailable in the European Union, which hasThis photo, taken in New York, Thursday, July 6, 2023, shows Meta's new app Threads.
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