Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads | Semafor

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The threat suggests that Threads is the most serious rival yet to Elon Musk’s chaotic social platform.

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Arguing a general concept such as certain limit of microblog copyrightable or trade secret is silly enough, hopefully court will throw out the lawsuit if Musky insisted to fill it.

Unless Meta really copied codes from Twitter.

I can't believe that "240 character social media post" is somehow a trade secret. What are they expecting to tell the judge and not be laughed out of court?

It might be possible to patent it. Look at Wizards of the Coast and all their crazy card game patents. But the only reason they were able to do that is because their patents are incredibly detailed and specific. So they could change it to 256 characters or something and be fine.

Yaccarino's post makes me want to retch. What a load of quasi-inspirational, self-aggrandizing, suffocatingly corporate trash.

Figured I'd read it to see what you're talking about.

  1. watch the tweet load, while it reads "view on Twitter"
  2. "[...] And that's irreplaceable. This... Show more"
  3. watch bird for three seconds
  4. watch balls spinning for seven seconds
  5. No, I do not want to accept your cookies.
  6. No, I do not want to sign in with Google.
  7. "...is your public square. We're often imitated -- but the Twitter community can never be duplicated."

The effort and wait was worth every single one of the 15 words. Truly an irreplaceable platform.

Anyone else thinks it's funny that journalist always have to explain/describe what Meta is? Be it the parent company of Facebook, Whatsapp or Instagram.

I'm glad they do. Meta's name change shouldn't free them from the reputation they earned with facebook. Pin the old name to them whenever possible.

I just call them Facebook, like everyone and their mother still calls Google Google. Fuck them thinking they can steal other people's name and sue them for it.

What if Zuck comes out of his lizard hole and utters the word:

FEDIVERSE.

to proclaim that Meta, formally known as Facebook, is now changing their name to Fedi.