Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg bragged about the number of people who flocked to subscribe to the new Threads app, which he announced Thursday, ignoring the announcement by rival company Twitter, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, to go to court.
In a post on Threads, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the number of subscribers to the new app had reached 70 million.
“70 million subscriptions to Threads as of this morning. (The number) far exceeded our expectations,” he said.
At a time when Twitter is faltering, Mark Zuckerberg has dealt yet another blow to Elon Musk’s rivalry among tech billionaires, launching Threads, a long-awaited companion to Instagram that is challenging Twitter.
The application is very similar to Twitter, as it allows the creation of short text posts that users can like, repost and respond to.
threat of prosecution
On the same day as Threads’ launch, Twitter publicly threatened to sue Meta Platforms, accusing it of systematic and illegal theft of trade secrets after launching its new platform.
Twitter’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, wrote a warning letter to Meta, which was published by the American SEMAFOR website, in which he demanded immediate steps to prevent the use of any secrets related to his platform.
Twitter’s lawyer claimed that Meta deliberately used former employees of Elon Musk to imitate and clone the application, warning against transferring Twitter secrets to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
The letter indicated that Meta and its app had illegally obtained Twitter’s trade secrets.
Linda Iaccarino, the new CEO of Twitter, said in a tweet that the company has often been imitated, in an apparent reference to Threads.
Source: Sky News
2023-07-07 17:58:30
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