Elon Musk after finishing his takeover bid of Twitter fired virtually half of the corporate’s 7,800 workers. The large lay-off as a bid to induce price reducing on the a part of the Tesla chief acquired backlash and criciticism for being brutal. Nonetheless, a day after Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta platform launched Twitter’s rival platform Threads, the Elon Musk’s firm is threatening to sue them for hiring workers Twitter had fired!
Whew!
Whereas Threads earned the reputation of being “Twitter clone’ by co-founder of Twitter- Jack Dorsey, it additionally etched the document of gaining 1 million customers within the shortest period- inside a couple of hours of being launched.
Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged greater than 30 million signal ups, appears to be like to tackle Elon Musk’s Twitter by leveraging Instagram’s billions of customers.
It must be famous that amid huge backlash for firing workers, the self-proclaimed advocate of free-speech Elon Musk had tweeted saying that he wish to “apologize for firing these geniuses.”
“Their immense expertise will little doubt be of nice use elsewhere,” he continued.
Earlier this 12 months in an interview with BBC, Elon Musk had stated that he had laid off about 80%, or 6,500 Twitter workers, whittling the corporate right down to fewer than 600 engineers. Elon Musk additionally stated firing that many workers was “one of many hardest” selections and that it was “not enjoyable in any respect. Painful.”
Nonetheless, Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform in a letter despatched to the Fb mother or father’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reported Reuters.
“Twitter intends to strictly implement its mental property rights, and calls for that Meta take speedy steps to cease utilizing any Twitter commerce secrets and techniques or different extremely confidential data,” Spiro wrote within the letter, as confirmed by Reuters.
The cease-and-desist letter despatched to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Spiro accused Meta of hiring “dozens of former Twitter workers” to create a “copycat” app.
Addressing the allegations, Threads spokesperson Andy Stone stated, “Nobody on the Threads engineering crew is a former Twitter worker — that is simply not a factor”.
Elon Musk, proprietor of Twitter stated, “Competitors is okay, dishonest will not be,” in response to a tweet citing the information.
Meta owns Instagram in addition to Fb.
Since Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform final October, Twitter has acquired competitors from Mastodon and Bluesky amongst others. Threads’ person interface, nonetheless, resembles the microblogging platform.
Nonetheless, Threads doesn’t assist key phrase searches or direct messages.
The most recent problem to Elon Musk’s Twitter follows a sequence of chaotic selections which have alienated each customers and advertisers, together with Tesla CEO Musk’s newest transfer to restrict the variety of tweets customers can learn per day.
(With Reuters inputs)
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Up to date: 07 Jul 2023, 07:08 PM IST
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