Competition is OK in business but cheating should not be: Musk

Meta created a similar platform by recruiting ex-employees who knew Twitter's trade secrets: lawyer Spiro

New York: Twitter owner Elon Musk has hit Zuckerberg with a notice threatening legal action, a day after Mark Zuckerberg's company Meta launched social media app 'Threads' to take on Twitter. Not only that, Musk has accused Zuckerberg of theft of trade secrets and fraud. Within 24 hours of its launch, Threads has reached 3 crore users in 100 countries around the world.

Just as Meta's social media app Instagram launched Threads to compete with Twitter, Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro has sent a legal notice to Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In the notice, he alleges that Meta recruited several ex-Twitter employees to build the Threads app. He termed the notice to Meta as a 'formal notice' to retain relevant documents for a possible dispute between the two companies. Twitter claimed that Meta had illegally used its business secrets and other intellectual resources. The company hired ex-Twitter employees who knew Twitter's trade secrets and other things. This is how Threads copied Twitter.

On this issue, Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, said that it is right to compete in business, but it is wrong to cheat.

Meta's director of communications Andy Stone, on the other hand, dismissed Twitter's allegations, saying Threads' engineering team does not include any former Twitter employees.

In fact, Twitter had fixed the number of posts for users without blue ticks and now the company has banned users without blue ticks from using TweetDeck. Amidst all this, Musk's decision is being protested and users are looking for an alternative to Twitter. Meanwhile, with the launch of Meta's new app 'Threads', a large number of users have switched to it.

However, a day after Threads launched, some analysts said Meta's new app Threads looks like a text-based version of photo-sharing app Instagram and could be a headache for Twitter. However, the success of Threads is not guaranteed. Because Meta's track record of launching independent apps shows that they are later discontinued and threads are still in the early days.

Threads lack some features. Additionally, Meta's new app has also raised privacy concerns. Threads has launched in more than 100 countries, but is not available in the European Union, which has strict rules on data privacy.

- Union Ministers, Celebrities join the threads

NEW DELHI: With the launch of Twitter's rival Manati Threads in over 100 countries across the world, India's top ministers including External Affairs Minister Jaishankar, Chief Ministers like Arvind Kejriwal, Bollywood actors like Madhuri Dixit, Abhishek Bachchan, cricketers like Shikhar Dhawan and spiritual gurus like Sadhguru are in threads the day before. have joined. Union Ministers include Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajiv Chandrasekhar. Apart from Kejriwal, Andhra Chief Minister YS Jaganmohan Reddy, Haryana Chief Minister Manoharlal Khattar, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee have joined Kejriwal on Meta's text-based social media platform threads. Apart from this, Karan Johar, Kajol, Allu Arjun, Jr. NTR, Tamannaah Bhatia, Mahesh Babu, cricketers Rishabh Pant, Suresh Raina have also been part of the threads.