A tweet is essentially just a Facebook status update. Isn’t this just Facebook going back to basics? They’re unshackling themselves from all of the layers of BS they’ve added over the years.
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Twitter Accuses Meta of Poaching Employees to Build Threads
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Elon: "I fired them, so they should STAY fired! It was a priviledge to be fired by the great Elon! How DARE they get other jobs."
Elon about to find out non competes aren’t a thing in CA.
App doesnt have the same feel as twitter, no evidence of anything stolen, no non-competes in the mix, and c’mon, the dude fired thousands of engineers, did he expect they would, what? Never work in the industry again to do him a personal favor of keeping talent out of the hands of competitors?
This is musk whining while Meta eats his lunch
This is musk whining while Meta eats his lunch
Oh wow, Elon, you fired 90% of your staff. What did you expect to happen?
I hope you and Twitter are run into the ground and broke.
I hope you and Twitter are run into the ground and broke.
It's barely been active for a day. This is not a runaway success.
True, but 30-40 million downloads and signups is—no other way to put it.
Will people stay?
prob. The Instagram effect is strong.
The best part of Thread though is that it gives media and large brands a safer haven to post.
Which will hurt twitter's bottom line Oh so hard.
Given the frictionless signup process for Instagram users, is this number really that impressive? Instagram has over 2 billion monthly active users, according to the web.
Zuck might be a horrible individual but he's not Elon Musk.
Why is this important to so many people's daily lives? Information is important to live daily. But most if not, the majority are not worth reading. Tabloids years proper Supermarket newsstands etc. are now in this format. Do the same as I did when they were in vogue ignore it. I have more important problems I need to solve every day. if I need to care about useless views of what others think on social media. Is the day I give up on life.
Twitter appears to be unhappy with the runaway success of Threads, Meta's Twitter alternative that launched last night. Threads has amassed more than 30 million users in under 24 hours, making it the biggest threat to Twitter to date.
According to Semafor, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro yesterday sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter [PDF] accusing Meta of "systemic, willful, and lawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property."
Twitter claims that Meta hired "dozens" of former Twitter employees that "had and continue to have access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information." The company further says that the employees "improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices," and that Meta took advantage of this to have those workers develop the "copycat" Threads app on an accelerated timeline.
When Elon Musk took over as CEO of Twitter, he fired thousands of employees who then had to look for work. It is likely that some of those employees transitioned to Meta, but hiring people actively looking for a job is not typically considered poaching.
Twitter's letter says that it plans to "enforce its intellectual property rights," with the company demanding that Meta "take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets." Twitter threatens that it reserves the right to seek "civil remedies and injunctive relief" to prevent Meta from using its intellectual property.
Along with claims that Meta poached Twitter employees to develop Threads, Twitter says that Meta is "expressly prohibited" from scraping Twitter's followers or following data. Twitter is asking Meta to "preserve any documents" that could be relevant to a future dispute, suggesting that Twitter might be planning to file a lawsuit in the future.
Twitter has not gone after other Twitter-like social networks that include Bluesky and Mastodon, but Threads is a newly-launched app that is built off of Instagram, giving it a notable user base from its debut. Mastodon and Bluesky have far fewer users. In February, for example, Mastodon had 1.4 million active users, while Bluesky had 50,000 users at the end of April.
Following Twitter's accusations, Meta's communications director Andy Stone said that no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee. "That's just not a thing," he wrote.
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Lines of code can’t be patented, but software functions can be (albeit it’s very difficult to patent and even harder to defend). Many apps use identical lines of code.
But the 🤡 is still running the 💩 show.Linda Yaccarino started her job as Twitter's new CEO a month ago today
Twitter's new CEO Linda Yaccarino logs first day in role
Twitter's new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has begun her role at the social media company, she tweeted late on Monday, about a month after Elon Musk named her as the new CEO.www.reuters.com
It does not seem like Linda is in charge at all.
Musk firing most of his twitter staff claiming they were worthless and just collecting a check and then suing when another company picks them up is hilarious. Can't have it both ways you big baby.
Unbelievable. If this was proposed as the script for a drama or novel it would have been rejected on the grounds that it was implausible that a supposedly genius character would repeatedly self-sabotage and shoot himself in the foot to such a degree. 🤦♂️
LMAO
Elon's whole grifty house of cards has been a piggy back off other peoples work.
Elon's whole grifty house of cards has been a piggy back off other peoples work.
It’s not really poaching if you laid them all off is it?
Oh, but we will hear a lot about her after they file for bankruptcy, and like all narcissists, Enron will place the blame on her whenever possible. Because it could not be him, he's a business genius! He's the guy that turned $44 billion into 12$ billion.
The basic functionality of Twitter is the same as News Feed which Facebook rolled out in 2006.
It's such a stunningly simple concept that even Truth Social was able to crank out a pretty good version of it.
generally the agreements developers sign include a 2+ year time after employment has terminated where they cannot work on projects that compete with their own product.
While I dont know specifically about twitter , I would be surprised if there wasn't a no competing clause in there
Most non-compete clauses that are one sided are held as invalid. If someone agrees "not to compete" they are given compensation for that time frame.
The validity of the clause itself is still evolving.
For example, they are basically unenforceable in California which is or was where Twitters headquarters were located.
