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Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
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The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (3 children)

IIRC Threads is 500 characters, not 240, so that wouldn't be a something they could sue over.

However, Twitter has over 2000 patents filed, over 1400 of which are registered in the United States. They deal with malicious advertisement detection & remediation, malware, automatic management of data processing, mobile app management, interactive advertising, and electric publishing to name a few.

I can see where Musk may have found similarities between the software somewhere in the mess of their patents.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    But just how would they know the internals of Threads? According to Meta, even Twitter's claim that Threads devs include ex-Twitter employees is wrong.

    To me it sounds like Twitter's legal action is just an obstruction tactic.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Smells of desperation to me. I mean, if I saw a competitor pop up overnight and gain ten million users in a single day, I'd be looking for ways to stop it too. I mean, after cleaning the worry diarrhea out of my pants.

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