Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.

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[–] 109 points 3 years ago (9 children)

Feel free to destroy each other.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    What sane person would side with either of them?

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  • [–] 96 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Poaching? Didn't Twitter drive out or lay off or fire nearly all their employees? You can't get rid of people and then complain when they go work for somebody you don't like.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Who had “side with Zuckerberg” on their 2023 bingo card?

    No, me neither.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    In lawsuits, nobody wins. Not even the attorneys and their sanity.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years ago

    A person you fired can't be poached.

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

    What part of threads could they even argue was stolen from Twitter? It’s an open source protocol plus Instagram logins. You think Facebook needed to hire people to tell them about how to post text on the internet?

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    They already had Instagram. Just take Instagram and replaced pictures and video with text. Job done. Tbh I'm not even sure why it needs a separate app instead of just adding it to insta.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 years ago

    I think the biggest threat to twitter is Elon Musk.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    The employees that Twitter laid off, had their severance fucked with, and their "right" to arbitration fucked with?

    Motherfuckers trying to double dip, or triple dip..

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Amusing that Twitter's cease and desist notice claims that Meta is using its "trade secrets". Lmfao what trade secrets? Twitter has no unique technology or patents. Their whole business position is nothing more than first mover advantage for their format of social media.

    That's why they've never made money. They don't have any novel IP or "trade secrets" to leverage in the first place.

    Say what you want about Meta, but at least they have a whole ad platform that they created that competes with Google Ad Sense, and is an actual asset.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Social media is literally nothing without its users. Do you think it's technically challenging to create a forum, or a feed of brain farts? A few rich people seem to have forgotten that recently.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Literally all of the major social media platforms are more or less intro to compsci levels of things. I think when I was first learning rails one of the tutorials was how to build a twitter clone. Granted, this is simplifying and there is a lot to be said for scaling and the more esoteric things, but yeah it's barely about the platform/software.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    What’s wrong Elon? Scared of a little competition?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    When they said they were having a cage fight, I was envisioning a physical boxing match in a ring, not two billionaires trying to out-lawyer each other...

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago

    Oh no!

    Anyways ...

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago*

    Poaching? They sacked most of their staff anyway

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    The use of the word "copycat" in an official communication just seems to immature and juvenile to me.

    But honestly, whatever...Threads will either sink Twitter once and for all, or both will fight each other to the death, and those are both win-win in my book.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    "I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere."

    -Elon Nov 15, 2022

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Maybe if they didn't screw the pooch on that cesspool Twitter they wouldn't have to p a n i k and sue

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