Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor
Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor
The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.
I can't believe that "240 character social media post" is somehow a trade secret. What are they expecting to tell the judge and not be laughed out of court?
It might be possible to patent it. Look at Wizards of the Coast and all their crazy card game patents. But the only reason they were able to do that is because their patents are incredibly detailed and specific. So they could change it to 256 characters or something and be fine.
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.
Your Honor, they copied my most salient lines of code.
This seems like a pretty heavy lift for Twitter and while I hardly support Meta, if Twitter somehow manages to win sole ownership of the concept of microblogs it would be bad for everyone.
Sorry Elon, but...
I'm fairly sure you don't get to axe most of your staff, refuse (illegally) to pay their severance packages and then sue another company because they hired your now, ex-employees, on the grounds that it's stealing from your company...
I hope he does go through with the lawsuit, it would be hilarious. I'm hoping for a ship of theseus argument.
I'm hoping for a mask-off "I paid them once so I own them forever" argument.
Twitter is apparently also struggling to pay for all the individual arbitration claims they forced their ex-employees to engage in rather than a class action, yet now they want to take on a lawsuit against Facebook? Do they honestly think they can come out ahead here?
Yaccarino's post makes me want to retch. What a load of quasi-inspirational, self-aggrandizing, suffocatingly corporate trash.
Figured I'd read it to see what you're talking about.
The effort and wait was worth every single one of the 15 words. Truly an irreplaceable platform.
Anyone else thinks it's funny that journalist always have to explain/describe what Meta is? Be it the parent company of Facebook, Whatsapp or Instagram.
I'm glad they do. Meta's name change shouldn't free them from the reputation they earned with facebook. Pin the old name to them whenever possible.
Finally, things are getting good. Hope the Coliseum is still available.
Elon has carved his name onto it in anticipation.
Remember to put the Star Trek fight music on the arena speakers.
But don't tell Paramount ahead of time, so we can another lawsuit in there.
If it's Musk and Zuckerberg, the song would have to be renamed "A-schmuck Time."
I'm curious who books the Coliseum and for what events. Is it available for weddings?
Same here. Let them fight.
Remember: Musk has a bottomless money pit.
I hope to see it run out during my lifetime.
The Lawyer moshpit will begin. Money is likely to be made, but fuck me these legal cases seem tiring to even be near.
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What a joke. Meta would not need ex-employees or “trade secrets” to create a Twitter clone.
@koncertejo I need more popcorn. This saga is longer than the entire Lord of the Rings films.
Arguing a general concept such as certain limit of microblog copyrightable or trade secret is silly enough, hopefully court will throw out the lawsuit if Musky insisted to fill it.
Unless Meta really copied codes from Twitter.
Good, let the lawyers feast on their corpses.
"Zuckerberg or Musk?"
"Yes."
Upvoted for the random Vorador reference.