Twitter threatened legal action against Instagram parent firm Meta in a cease-and-desist letter earlier this week over the new text-based app Threads, which it labeled a clone.
Since its debut as Elon Musk’s newest social media competitor, Threads has attracted millions of members.
Legal experts point out that there are still many questions, and the threads’ founders have rebuffed the charges.
A New Text-Based Platform With Distinct Features
According to intellectual property expert Jacob Noti-Victor, an associate professor at Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School, it’s currently kind of a big question mark.
However, many who are just beginning to study Threads are already coming to their own conclusions.
People are dubbing it a Twitter clone, but Alexandra Popken, the former head of trust and safety operations at Twitter, believes there are some significant product distinctions.
She anticipates that one distinction will be the users. She claimed that while Twitter caters to a more specialized audience of politicians, celebrities, and news enthusiasts, Threads allows users to effectively take their Instagram audience and import it into a new text-based platform.
Nevertheless, despite the fact that Threads’ creators have stated they are not particularly interested in turning it into a political platform, it is expected to draw journalists and politicians among other users searching for an alternative to Twitter.
Threads is not intended to replace Twitter, according to Adam Mosseri, CEO of Instagram.
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Threads For Instagram And Twitter Communities
For communities on Instagram that never truly adopted Twitter and for communities on Twitter (and other platforms) interested in a less combative environment for conversations, but not all of Twitter, he said, the objective is to build a public square.
He acknowledged that politics and hard news will inevitably appear on Threads, but we would take no action to promote them.
Nobody in the Threads technical team is a former employee of Twitter, according to a response from Meta spokesperson Andy Stone in a thread published on Thursday.
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