Twitter was meant to collect the devices from former employees, but took months to do so, according to numerous accounts of former employees. And rank and file Twitter employees and engineers did not have non-compete agreements that would prohibit them in any way from seeking employment at Meta or any other tech company, the person added.Īs for Twitter's claim that former employees "retained" their work laptops, a former employee said everyone who was laid off, fired, or quit amid Musk's takeover had their devices immediately "bricked," meaning they were locked by the company and could no longer be used. Only about 500 engineers remain at the company, where there were once more than 3,500. Furthermore, another person familiar with Twitter noted Musk has let go or fired Twitter engineers by the thousands since taking over the platform in late October. While there is, and has for years been, employee crossover between Meta and Twitter, a source familiar with both companies said there are a small handful of former Twitter workers currently at Meta, none of whom appear to be currently working on Threads. Musk, responding to a Twitter account that posted the news of the letter, wrote "Competition is fine, cheating is not." Twitter representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment ahead of publication. Spiro went on in the letter to accuse Meta of hiring "dozens of former Twitter employees," some of which "improperly retained Twitter documents and electronic devices." He also suggested that Meta had been "crawling and scraping" Twitter data on users and followers by reminding the company such activity is "expressly prohibited." Twitter over the weekend suddenly imposed rate limits for all users, something the company claimed after the fact was aimed at stopping other companies from accessing its data and another effort to combat bots misusing the platform.Ī spokesman for Meta referred Insider to a Threads post from communications head Andy Stone, in which he wrote, "To be clear, no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - that's just not a thing." Stone added in a follow up Threads comment, regarding Twitter's suggestion that Meta was "scraping" data: "Interesting, given that Threads is powered by INSTAGRAM." The letter, confirmed by Insider, claims Meta used "Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property" to build Threads. The night that Meta launched its new text-based app, Alex Spiro, Musk's personal lawyer who also helped with his takeover of Twitter, sent Mark Zuckerberg a formal letter regarding Twitter's "serious concerns" about the legality of Threads, as Semafor first reported.
It often indicates a user profile.Įlon Musk's Twitter is threatening to take Facebook's parent company, Meta, to court over its new rival social media app, Threads. To accept greater public sector and industry collaboration as a crucial pillar of any future regulatory frameworks.Īs we all know, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg remains bullish on the company’s metaverse plans even if it costs the company a lot in terms of cutting the workforce and even incurring billions worth of losses.įor those who are skeptical of Meta’s metaverse initiative, Zuckerberg stated, “if you’re getting skepticism, you’re pushing hard enough.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.Policymakers must acknowledge that decentralized systems can help create new economic opportunities by encouraging competition, innovation, interoperability, and the mobility of ownership and identity.He says policymakers should adopt a technology-neutral approach that focuses on “same risks, same rules.”.Bowles noted the two key components for making the metaverse an economic success, interoperability and portability will be powered by the further adoption of web3 technologies.īowles lays out three core principles policymakers should consider while setting up rules for web3 technologies like Metaverse.
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