Facebook billionaire claims over 30 million users signed up on his Threads platform in less than 24 hours
Elon Musk threatened to sue on Meta, as more than 30 million users signed up for Mark Zuckerberg's rival application Threads.
Twitter sent Mr. Zuckerberg an email accusing Meta of hiring «dozens» of former Twitter employees and appointing them to develop its applications. Threads «copycat» app.
In a letter posted by Semafor on Threads, Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro wrote: «Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and requires Meta to take immediate action to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly sensitive information.»
A Meta rep said, «No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — it just doesn't matter.»
Earlier Thursday, Mr. Zuckerberg accused Mr. Musk's Twitter of missing out on his chance to create a social network with mass appeal, as he said his newly launched competitor targeted more than a billion users.
Facebook billionaire says more than 30 million users signed up for his Threads platform in less than 24 hours, one of the fastest app launches of all time.
This comes amid protests against Mr. Musk's decision to impose limits on the number of tweets users can view each day.
In his Threads article, Mr. Zuckerberg said: «I think there should be an app for public conversations with 1 billion + people.
“Twitter had an opportunity to do this, but it failed. I hope it will be so.”
The app, which uses Instagram login details and allows users to follow people and post text updates, is a direct challenge to Twitter, which Musk has paid $44bn (£35bn). ) last year.
Mr. Zuckerberg tweeted Thursday: “Wow, 30 million subscribers this morning. It looks like the start of something special, but we have a lot of work ahead of us to build the app.» He said it was «the best start we could have hoped for.»
He added that Twitter was having difficulty because it was not «friendly» to use.
Mr. Zuckerberg wrote: «The goal is to keep it friendly as it expands.
«I think it's possible and will eventually be the key to its success. This is one of the reasons why Twitter never achieved the success it should have, and we want to do it differently.»
Twitter, founded in 2006, is often accused of failing to capitalize on its cultural influence. It has generated controversy for being owned by Mr. Musk, and many users have left it for upstart pretenders like Mastodon and Bluesky.
Meta's Threads, which allows people to instantly Getting started by following people they are friends with on Instagram is the biggest challenge for Twitter today.
A year ago, Twitter had 237.8 million daily users and last reported the numbers before Mr. Musk took over.
During the app's first 24 hours, Threads saw a succession of celebrities and politicians flock to including Sir Keir Starmer, Paris Hilton and Gordon Ramsey.
Threads launched without ads. Mr. Zuckerberg said that Meta would only think about monetizing the app when it hits a clear path to 1 billion people.
releasing an application is more difficult. In the UK and US, it climbed to the top of the Apple and Google download charts.
Earlier Thursday, Musk tweeted: «Better to be attacked by strangers on Twitter than to indulge in the false happiness of Instagram hidden in pain.»< /p>
The mogul's newly appointed chief executive Linda Iaccarino tweeted: «We are often imitated, but the Twitter community cannot be copied.»
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