Twitter to sue Meta for introducing ‘Thread’ a rival social media app

Just hours after Instagram’s parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will outperform the struggling site owned by Elon Musk, Twitter threatened to sue Meta.

Musk attorney Alex Spiro accused Meta of “unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” in a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that was published by online news source Semafor on Thursday.

Twitter claimed that Meta had hired dozens of former employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

Though a number of potential rivals have emerged for Musk-owned Twitter, one of the largest social media platforms in the world has not yet been replaced. Threads is the biggest threat to the company at the moment.

The latest action taken by Zuckerberg against Musk fueled their ongoing rivalry, which has progressed to the point where they’ve agreed to engage in cage-match hand-to-hand combat.

At 2300 GMT on Wednesday, Threads went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries. Early feedback noted its similarity to Twitter, though scaled back.

More than 30 million people had downloaded Threads in a short period of time, according to Zuckerberg on Thursday.

Many Nigerian social media influencers have also created an account with the social media platform urging their followers to get on the latest social media platform tipped to send embattle Twitter out of out of market.

Elon Musk made a number of operational changes after assuming ownership of the well-known social media platform, which had an impact on how it operated. First, legacy verification for users of the platform who had been verified by the app’s previous owners was removed. Next, a subscription fee known as Twitter Blue was introduced. In spite of their dissatisfaction, many social media users persisted in using the platform because there was no other option.

 

A new policy that places “temporary limits” on the number of posts that can be read each day was recently announced by the CEO of Twitter.

Musk first announced on Saturday afternoon that verified accounts are restricted to reading 6,000 posts daily, while unverified accounts are only allowed to read 600 posts daily. According to him, daily posting limits for new, unverified accounts are 300 posts.

Two hours after the announcement, Musk tweeted that rate caps would be “increasing soon” to 8,000 for verified accounts, 800 for unverified accounts, and 400 for brand-new unverified accounts.