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Twitter sends Meta cease-and-desist letter after launch of rival app Threads

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The hypocrisy of "we fired 7500 people because we can (and didn't honor any of their contract terms)", followed by "no one else is allowed to employ them", is truly a thing to behold.

But followed up with "no one working on Threads worked at twitter" is a chef's kiss.

It’s extremely funny to think that building a microblogging clone involves any trade secrets whatsoever

Especially with all the hype about publishing the "algorithm"

Let's not ignore the fact that Threads brazenly stole Twitter's proprietary "no edit button" technology.

"Over the past year, Meta has hired dozens of former Twitter employees," the letter, signed by lawyer Alex Spiro, reads.

After Twitter fired them!

And refuses to pay the agreed upon severance.

Also, Meta is a massive company. If Meta did not hire “Dozens” of former Twitter employees that would be far more suspicious because it would probably indicate they were going out of their way not to hire Twitter employees, since they would likely hire “dozens” of Twitter employees purely based on statistics.

I can't wait for Twitter to never ever file suit in the matter.

That said, Zuck should personally respond with the offer of a cage match.

Re: cage match. no. no more oxygen for these two socially destructive menaces. let’s stop living in reality tv world.

No, no, they get the oxygen, but we replace their nitrogen with CO2.

California is a right to work state. Where did Elon think the Twitter employees he laid off would go?

> California is a right to work state.

“Right to work” is a particular limit on unions, and California very much does not follow it.

I suspect you meant to reference California’s strong policy against post-employment non-competes.

I wonder how heavy that bag labeled $44Bn musk is holding weighs...

A dollar bill weighs 1 gram, or 0.001 kg. Assuming it’s denominated in $100 bills, that bag weighs roughly $4.4 * 10^10 * 0.001 / $100 = 4.4 * 10^5 = 440,000 kg.

No one should be allowed to have a billion dollars.

bag-holding generally implies what the bag contains is of substantially less value than what was paid...

Fun arithmetic nonetheless

I know the expression, I was just taking it literally to be humorous.

What's the end game for Twitter here? This is so pathetic. Unlikely to do anything but promote Threads.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620536

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