Following the crazy growth of Threads, Twitter threatens its parent company, Meta, with a potential lawsuit, citing the latter misappropriating its trade secrets and intellectual property.

Further, Twitter accused Meta of poaching its former employees to build its new Threads, calling it a violation of state and federal laws. Well, Meta refuted these claims saying that no former Twitter employee was put on the Threads engineering team.

Threatening With a Lawsuit

A day after the hyped launch of Meta Threads, Twitter called for a lawsuit against Zuckerbergโ€™s company for stealing its ex-employees, trade secrets and violating its copyrights. On Thursday, Elon Muskโ€™s lawyer and the official counsel of Twitterโ€™s parent company, X Corp, Alex Spiro, threatens Meta with a potential lawsuit.

โ€œTwitter 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.โ€

Spiro claims that Meta hired dozens of ex-Twitter employees last year and โ€œdeliberately assignedโ€ them to work on Threads โ€œwith the intent that they use Twitterโ€™s trade secrets and other intellectual property to accelerate the development nt of Metaโ€™s competing app.โ€

Well, Metaโ€™s communications director Andy Stone refuted these claims saying that none of the ex-Twitter employees it hired was put on Threads engineering team, and โ€œthatโ€™s just not a thing,โ€ โ€“ hinting at its readiness to face the lawsuit from Twitter.

As we wait for more details on this, the Threads app, on the other hand, grew rapidly its launch day โ€“ garnering over 30 million sign-ups by Thursday morning. Other reports state the app has already crossed 50 million sign-ups, considering its sharp growth and no update from Zuckerberg since late yesterday.