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Twitter accuses Threads of using its trade secrets, threatens legal action

Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta over its new, text-based app called Threads, according to a letter obtained by Semafor. In a Wednesday letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Alex Spiro, an attorney representing Twitter, accused Meta of unlawfully using Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property by hiring former Twitter employees to create a "copycat" app. Since launching Threads Wednesday night, Meta's new app has collected tens of millions of sign ups. The app, which was created by the company's Instagram team, arrives at a time when many are looking for Twitter alternatives to escape Elon Musk's raucous oversight of the platform since acquiring it last year for USD 44 billion. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone responded to the report of Spiro's letter on Threads Thursday afternoon, writing, "no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee that's just not a thing". In the letter, which Semafor first reported on Thursday, Spiro s

Recent Twitter modifications pose problems for users, say analysts

Some users on microblogging site Twitter are shifting to third-party apps since the company has made verification necessary within 30 days for accessing TweetDeck, a move which industry watchers believe could give an edge to rival platforms. Since the removal of Teams feature from the Elon Musk-led app, reported outages and a number of changes announced, users have been taking to the platform to report issues of increased advertisements and appearances of blocked and muted accounts on their Twitter feed. A user tweeted, "Twitter just has too many ads and now you're locking Tweet Deck behind a paywall and limiting the number of tweets I can read in a day... unless I pay." "If we're going to be rate-limited based on view count, why am I forced to view accounts I blocked?," another user tweeted. Heads of enterprise technology platforms said that their work has been impacted due to the changes over the past 3-4 months on Twitter. "We have to switch screens and use third party tools fo

Twitter silently does away with the requirement to log in to see tweets

The micro-blogging platform prevented users from checking out a tweet if they were not logged in and prompted them to log in for the same

Instagram Threads: Meta's Twitter rival sees 10 million downloads in 7 hrs

Those quick to join the new Meta platform included celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez

Threads: Meta's "Twitter killer" app puts Elon Musk under pressure

Users, on the whole, may care little about that. What they will care about, though, is a lack of control over what they see in their Threads feed

Threads: 30 million join Meta's Twitter rival, says Mark Zuckerberg

Text-based app seeks to rival Twitter, will be an extension of Instagram

Before cage match, Zuckerberg’s Twitter rival Threads to enter the ring

Meta is turning Instagram's comment section into a standalone app where users can create and join threads on various topics. Watch the video to know more >

Mark Zuckerberg posts first tweet in 11 years in Threads jibe at Musk

Meta's Instagram officially unveiled Threads, considered most potent threat yet to struggling social media service Musk owns. Hours later, Zuckerberg tweeted photo of identical Spider-Men facing off

Instagram Threads: Everything you need to know about Meta's Twitter rival

At a time when Twitter is undergoing big changes under Elon Musk, Meta launched Threads in 100 countries on Thursday as Twitter rival. Here is all you need to know about the app

Instagram unveils Threads app, a serious threat to Elon Musk's Twitter

The app will let users port over their existing follower lists and account names from Instagram, Meta's photo and video-sharing app that counts major creators among its more than 2 bn users

Instagram to launch text-based conversation app Threads to take on Twitter

A user has to have an Instagram account to sign up for Threads, where the Instagram username will be used on the Threads app

Twitter rival Threads hasn't appeared in EU app stores ahead of launch

App stores in some European Union countries, including Germany and Belgium, weren't displaying Threads as of late Tuesday

TweetDeck users to get verified in 30 days or face restrictions: Twitter

Twitter users will need to get their account verified for using collaborative and content creation platform TweetDeck, the social media company said on Tuesday. TweetDeck allows users to manage multiple accounts from a single dashboard as well as collaborate with other users for creating content on Twitter without sharing passwords. "In 30 days, users must be Verified to access TweetDeck," Twitter Support said in a tweet. Access to TweetDeck is free as of now but its users will now have to shell out money to access it with new rules mandating verification of account. Twitter charges Rs 650 per month or Rs 6,800 annually on the web from verified accounts. Twitter said that it has temporarily disabled the "Teams" functionality, which helps collaborate with other users, and will be restored in the coming weeks. In a new version released on Tuesday, users will need to import their TweetDeck columns the first time they launch the application. The new version of the application will sup

Meta set to take on Musk's Twitter with a rival app called 'Threads'

Meta is poised to unveil a new app that appears to mimic Twitter a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk. A listing for the app, called Threads, appeared on Apple's App Store, indicating it would debut as early as Thursday. It is billed as a text-based conversation app" that is linked to Instagram, with the listing teasing a Twitter-like microblogging experience. Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what'll be trending tomorrow, it said. Instagram users will be able to keep their user names and follow the same accounts on the new app, according to screenshots displayed on the App Store listing. Meta declined to comment on the app. Musk replied yeah to a tweet from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey saying, All your Threads are belong to us, along with a screenshot from the App Store's privacy section showing what personal information might be collected by the new Meta app. Threads could be

Instagram's Twitter-rival Threads app launching on July 6, details inside

On July 6, Meta's Instagram will introduce 'Threads', a new app aiming to compete with Elon Musk's Twitter. Users will be able to log in using their Instagram accounts

Twitter users must be verified to access TweetDeck, announces company

Charging for TweetDeck, which was previously free and is widely used by businesses and news organizations to easily monitor content, could bring a revenue boost to Twitter

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Before cage match, Zuckerberg's Twitter rival Threads to enter the ring

With the launch, Meta is seeking to take advantage Twitter's problems since the social media service was taken over last year by Elon Musk

TMS Ep468: TCS bribes-for-job, UCC, Markets with UR Bhat, data scraping

Bribes-for-jobs: What really happened at TCS? Is India ready for a Uniform Civil Code? How sustainable is the market rally? Twitter: How does data scraping work? All answers here

Twitter accused of ducking legal fight over Elon Musk's mass layoffs

About 2,000 former Twitter employees have resorted to fighting their claims in arbitration as the company has demanded - but Twitter hasn't shown up, according to a complaint filed Monday