Twitter threatens legal action over Threads

Twitter threatens to take legal action over Threads, with an attorney from Twitter describing it as a “copycat” and claiming that it is developed by former Twitter employees using the company’s trade secrets. The attorney writes:

Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms has engaged in systemic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property. The company plans to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights.

Meta declines to comment on the letter, but director Andy Stone responds on Threads:

No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing.