Twitter Threatens to Take Action against Meta Over Threads: According to a Report

Twitter is contemplating legal action against Meta Platforms over its new Threads platform, according to Semafor, citing a letter written by Twitter's lawyer Alex Spiro to Facebook parent company CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

"Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information," Spiro said in the letter.

Meta launched Threads on Wednesday, aiming to compete with Elon Musk's Twitter by using Instagram's billions of users.

Meta and Spiro did not immediately reply to calls for comment from Reuters.

Meanwhile, analysts believe Threads' links to Instagram may provide it with a built-in user base and advertising platform. This might syphon ad money away from Twitter at a time when the company's new CEO is attempting to turn things around.

While Threads is a standalone app, users can log in using their Instagram credentials and follow the same profiles, possibly making it a simple addition to Instagram's more than 2 billion monthly active users' current habits.

"Investors can't help but be excited about the prospect that Meta truly has a 'Twitter-Killer,'" said Danni Hewson, head of financial analysis at AJ Bell.

Others saw Threads' introduction as a chance to establish a less poisonous version of Twitter.

"May this platform have good vibes, a strong community, excellent humour, and less harassment," Ocasio-Cortez said in a Facebook post.

The programme, like Twitter, includes brief text postings that users may like, re-post, and react to, but it does not support direct messaging. According to a Meta blog article, posts can be up to 500 characters long and include links, photographs, and videos up to five minutes long.

According to the blog post, it is accessible in over 100 countries on both Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store.