The rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg has intensified in latest weeks, particularly because the launch of Twitter’s rival app Threads. Specifically, Musk and Zuckerberg have been set to have interaction in a cage battle, which was later cancelled, in response to Twitter CEO’s mom Maye Musk.
The launch of Meta’s newest social media providing, Threads, has solely exacerbated the state of affairs between the 2 corporations. It did not assist that the Meta staff marketed its new app as ‘Twitter killer’ and that the Threads staff included many former Twitter staff.
Quickly after the launch of Threads, Elon Musk threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg in a letter despatched utilizing his lawyer Alex Spiro. Musk has accused Meta of participating in “systematic, willful, and illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s commerce secrets and techniques and different mental property.”Twitter claimed that Meta had recruited quite a few former Twitter staff who had allegedly saved unauthorized gadgets and paperwork from their time at Twitter and these staff have been assigned to work on the Threads app.
In a tweet that has since gone viral, with round 2.2 million views and 40,000 retweets, a parody account of Musk with the username @ElonMuskAOC shared a screenshot of a message it claimed to have despatched to the Meta CEO.
The message contained a picture within the type of a QR code with the F-word inscribed within the centre.
Though the message was shared by a parody account, it is not removed from what Musk would have despatched to the Meta CEO. In response to a screenshot of a dialog between Zuckerberg and burger chain Wendys on the Threads app, Musk replied: “Zuck is a cuck. The burger chain had requested the Meta CEO to enter area to make Musk actually offended, and Zuckerberg had responded with a laughing emoji.
In the meantime, reviews point out that after preliminary success the hype surrounding Meta’s newest social media platform may very well be dying out. In line with numerous knowledge reviews Threads had roughly 49 million each day energetic customers (DAU) when it first launched in early July. Nonetheless, by the tip of the second week, this quantity dropped by half to 23 million DAU.
