Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.
Feel free to destroy each other.
As long as they ignore us.
Best case scenario right here
What sane person would side with either of them?
Well… A lot, sadly
I said sane person…
Lol, my bad!
Poaching? Didn’t Twitter drive out or lay off or fire nearly all their employees? You can’t get rid of people and then complain when they go work for somebody you don’t like.
Those people we fired should have to starve to death.
~Elon, Probably“If you don’t want to work like a slave, then leave! … no not like that”
What part of threads could they even argue was stolen from Twitter? It’s an open source protocol plus Instagram logins. You think Facebook needed to hire people to tell them about how to post text on the internet?
They already had Instagram. Just take Instagram and replaced pictures and video with text. Job done. Tbh I’m not even sure why it needs a separate app instead of just adding it to insta.
Compartmentalization. Instagram + Threads would just = facebook lol. Threads is their microblogging platform, instagram is their image platform, messenger/whatsapp for messaging etc.
Are you referring to ActivityPub? AFAIK, ActivityPub isn’t even shipping on day one
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Who had “side with Zuckerberg” on their 2023 bingo card?
No, me neither.
In lawsuits, nobody wins. Not even the attorneys and their sanity.
They can wipe their tears with the money. Both of these giants have good cause for some damn expensive lawyers.
The employees that Twitter laid off, had their severance fucked with, and their “right” to arbitration fucked with?
Motherfuckers trying to double dip, or triple dip…
Let them fight.
I think the biggest threat to twitter is Elon Musk.
Amusing that Twitter’s cease and desist notice claims that Meta is using its “trade secrets”. Lmfao what trade secrets? Twitter has no unique technology or patents. Their whole business position is nothing more than first mover advantage for their format of social media.
That’s why they’ve never made money. They don’t have any novel IP or “trade secrets” to leverage in the first place.
Say what you want about Meta, but at least they have a whole ad platform that they created that competes with Google Ad Sense, and is an actual asset.
The only secret they had that you could have argued was the algorithm itself, but Elon open-sourced that in all his infinite wisdom, so yeah…
Social media is literally nothing without its users. Do you think it’s technically challenging to create a forum, or a feed of brain farts? A few rich people seem to have forgotten that recently.
Twitter has no unique technology
That’s… Patently not true. Twitter, has come up with many novel innovations while running their site. If you look at their engineering blog, there’s tons of information about the work they do. Not to mention, many of their scaling concerns have become staple system design interview questions (e.g. “the celebrity problem”)
Now, as a business…? Yeah, they never quite took off there.
Oh no!
Anyways …
Poaching? They sacked most of their staff anyway
“I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.”
-Elon Nov 15, 2022
Non-competes need to be illegal worldwide yesterday. They’re a form of slavery.
