Elon is whining again, pushing false claims, and coming off looking like an idiot. As his company circles the toilet due to self-inflicted wounds. Musk vs. Zuckerberg Threads throwdown: Twitter threatening to sue over Twitter 'killer' https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech...awsuit-over-facebook-threads-app/70388930007/ The tech billionaire cage match between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk just leapt out of the ring and into the courtroom. Twitter is threatening to sue Meta, accusing the Facebook and Instagram parent company of poaching Twitter employees and pilfering trade secrets to build its “Twitter killer” app. On Wednesday Meta debuted Threads, a text-based social media app that mimics Twitter in look and feel. Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro fired back, alleging “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.” In the letter to Meta CEO Zuckerberg obtained by news outlet Semafor, Spiro alleged Meta hired dozens of former Twitter employees with access to “Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.” “Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote. In a statement, Meta spokesman Andy Stone denied Spiro’s charges. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee – that’s just not a thing,” he said. Twitter replied to a request for comment from USA TODAY with an automated poop emoji. Threads is essentially a text-based version of Instagram. It uses your Instagram username and automatically follows the same people you already follow on your Instagram account. You can then customize your profile for Threads. Posts can be up to 500 characters long and can include links, photos and videos up to 5 minutes in length. Piggybacking on Instagram, which has more than 2 billion monthly active users, helped Threads quickly gain traction. Zuckerberg said Thursday that Threads signed up 30 million users in its first day, trouncing would-be Twitter competitors like Bluesky, Mastodon and Post which have tried to capitalize on Twitter’s troubles under Musk but have failed to attract large audiences.
This is what triggered Apartheid Elmo Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App as Twitter Threatens Meta In less than a day, Threads — which is aimed as a rival to Twitter — appears to have taken the crown as the most rapidly downloaded app ever. It easily outstripped ChatGPT, the chatbot, which was downloaded one million times within its first five days, according to OpenAI, ChatGPT’s maker. And it is on pace to exceed 100 million users within two months, a feat achieved only by ChatGPT, according to the analytics firm Similarweb. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/technology/threads-downloads-twitter.html @vanzandt Say it isn't so.
We’ll see how threads goes because it’s all about the algorithm. The twitter Musk bought had an awesome algorithm then he screwed it up because he thoughts right wing political views and conspiracy theories weren’t getting enough views. Now my Twitter is all messed up with things I’m not interested in and RFKjr vax nonsense because that’s what Musk wants pushed. Threads seems to be just who you’re following. Which is ok but I already can switch to that mode in twitter. And its search function is still limited. So far not very impressed with it but it’s still kind of beta so we will see.
Elon Musk Sends Legal Threat To Facebook And Once Facebook Finishes Laughing I'm Sure They'll Get Right Back To Him https://abovethelaw.com/2023/07/elon-musk-meta-facebook-threat/