The Twitter competitor app gained 10 million new users in the first seven hours.
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san francisco According to a media report, Twitter is threatening the Facebook group Meta with a lawsuit because of the rival app Threads that has just been launched. A Twitter lawyer accused Meta in a letter of using confidential information and internal knowledge of the short message service for threads, the website Semafor wrote on Thursday and published a copy of the letter.
Among other things, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro claimed that Meta had hired dozens of ex-employees of the short message service who had confidential internal information. Twitter owner Elon Musk has laid off thousands of employees since taking over the company last October. Many of them found new jobs at other tech companies.
Facebook group Meta rejects allegations from Twitter
At Meta, the allegations were rejected, wrote Semafor. For example, no former Twitter employees worked in the Threads development team, it said.
Meta released its Twitter competitor app on Thursday night. Threads is considered a strong rival for Twitter because the app can draw on a base of more than a billion user accounts from Meta’s photo and video app Instagram. Threads had ten million users in the first seven hours, as Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg announced.