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CTOnews.com reported on July 7 that less than 24 hours after launching Threads, Meta has more than 30 million registered users, making Twitter feel a huge threat.

According to foreign technology media Semafor, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter [PDF] to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday, accusing Meta of "systematically, intentionally and illegally embezzling Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property rights".

Twitter accused Meta of illegally poaching senior employees, including engineers, product managers and designers.

Twitter said Meta's actions violated the agreement between the two sides and damaged Twitter's business interests and innovation ability. Twitter also said it would take legal action to protect its intellectual property rights and human resources.

Twitter highlights two main points in its letter. The CTOnews.com is summarized as follows:

Thinking that Meta hired employees to steal secrets, Twitter said Meta hired "dozens" of former Twitter employees who had access to Twitter's trade secrets and other highly confidential information.

Meta takes advantage of Twitter's belief that these employees improperly retain Twitter documents and electronic devices to speed up the development of "copycat" Threads apps.

Twitter plans to enforce its intellectual property, requiring Meta to take immediate steps to stop the use of any Twitter trade secrets and reserve the right to seek "civil remedies and injunctive remedies" to prevent Meta from using its intellectual property.

Demand a ban on crawling Twitter fans and follow data Twitter accuses Meta of poaching Twitter employees to develop Threads, as well as Meta for crawling Twitter fans and fan data.

Twitter asked Meta to "retain any documents that may be relevant to future disputes", suggesting that Twitter may plan to file a lawsuit in the future.

Musk officially commented: "Competition is fine, but cheating is not allowed."

After Twitter's allegations, Andy Stone, Meta's communications director, said there were no former Twitter employees on the Threads engineering team. "it's not a problem at all," he responded.

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