By most measures, the first day of Meta’s Threads app was a success.
Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday morning that the app had already signed up 30 million users, making it the most popular Twitter competitor after less than one day in operation.
Threads launched less than a week after Elon Musk announced that Twitter would limit the number of tweets people can view on the platform each week.
The battle between the competing social media platforms heated up yesterday when it was revealed that attorneys for Twitter had sent a cease and desist letter to Zuckerberg on Wednesday, accusing Meta of misappropriating Twitter’s trade secrets with the help of former Twitter employees hired by Meta.
Andy Stone, a spokesperson for Meta, said in a post on Threads that “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee.”
Source: ABC News