 So meta launched their supposed Twitter killer called threads on Wednesday And it is apparently already a massive success with Mark Zuckerberg announcing that 30 million people have already signed up Now having signed up for it myself. I've got to say just my first impression is that I like it It has potential there's certainly more work that needs to be done to get it on Twitter's level But it's still really good and most importantly, it's not run by Elon Musk. I get it It's still run by Mark Zuckerberg, which is not ideal, but I would prefer him to Musk at this point That's how little faith I have in Elon Musk. By the way, feel free to follow me on threads I'm Mike Dadfigerato, but putting aside my shameless self-promotion here for a moment It was really evident that Elon Musk immediately felt threatened by this new competitor and he threw some shade their way But to be fair to him, it wasn't like he was unprovoked So Meta's chief product officer explicitly said that threads was Meta's quote response to Twitter and took a potshot at Elon Musk last month saying quote We've been hearing from creators and public figures who are interested in having a platform that is sanely run Ouch that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution Now Cox made that comment to a crowd of people and they erupted in cheers When he said that so if you're Elon Musk, that's got a sting a little bit, right now He responded in a semi viral tweet from a Twitter user pointing out that threads collect your data and he said thank goodness They're so sanely run. So obviously that comment is you know, it hurt him a little bit, right? Now in response to Jack Dorsey Twitter's original founder pointing this out to Elon Musk simply responded saying yeah But as tech journalist Matt Bender pointed out Twitter collects the same data now to be fair to him Even though he owns the platform. I honestly don't know if he's smart enough to know that they collect that data as well So I can't necessarily just chalk it up to hypocrisy But that's not really a defense for Elon Musk He's either hypocritical or dumb either way it's not a good look but regardless Elon Musk is not a fan of this new competitor and The most insane part about all of this is that he is already threatening To sue them just one day after threads launched. You can't make this shit up So as HuffPost reports a Silicon Valley legal firm representing ex-corp That's Twitter's parent company by the way all of these tech giants have dumb fucking parent company names But regardless claimed in a letter first reported by semaphore that meta had engaged in systematic willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property by poaching its employees Musk kicked off his tenure as head of Twitter by slashing the company's payroll by at least three quarters Leaving thousands out of a job now some of the former Twitter employees have apparently found work at meta According to the letter to meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg that was dated Wednesday in a statement However, meta pushed back against the accusations saying that there had been no impropriety No one on the threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee That's just not a thing company spokesperson Andy stone said the letter to Zuckerberg had specifically alleged that meta deliberately Assigned former Twitter employees to develop in a matter of months meta's copycat Threads app with the specific intent that they use Twitter's trade secrets and other Intellectual property in order to accelerate the development of meta's competing app in violation of both state and federal law As well as those employees ongoing obligations to Twitter It instructed his company to preserve any documents that could be relevant to the dispute now in response to this story You must comment it on the legal threat on Twitter saying Competition is fine cheating is not and he also commented on the photo of I'm from Zuckerberg Where he called Harvard students who submitted information to him because they trust him quote dumb fucks And while I can't confirm that this is the actual screenshot of the I'm this is indeed Something that Zuckerberg said verbatim so I'll link to that down below if you want to learn more but the shitsucking didn't end there because someone reacted to the lack of a following tab on threads and Jack Dorsey responded to that saying not surprising They've never given people the choice to remove the algorithm look at Instagram and Musk then responded to Dorsey saying a closed source Algorithm only system means that manipulation of what information people see is essentially Undetectable and again he commented on these specific types of data that threads collect So he's very clearly seething about the success of threads and let me just properly paint this picture for you So as he is Semi-rage tweeting about threads not really rage tweeting, but he's posting through it, right? He's feeling some feelings because of this successful platform as all of that's happening on His own platform guess what's trending It's threads along with Jimmy Dorr and Anakasperian, but the point is that Threads is trending on his platform So he is very salty and you love to see it now people's privacy concerns are Absolutely valid and I feel like it's worthwhile to reiterate that Elon Musk However needs to lead by example on this front right because you can't criticize threads for something Without looking like a hypocrite if Twitter engages in the same practices second of all I think that most consumers already know that these tech companies They really don't respect our data our privacy They sell our data to advertisers all the time and I think that at this point most of us know the risks but despite those risks and concerns 30 million people still signed up anyways even though none of us trust Facebook anymore Because we wanted some type of communication platform akin to Twitter without the toxicity without Elon Musk specifically and This is a serious competitor Musk is going to continue to cope and see that imagine because this is This is huge right now to be fair threads is not the only Twitter competitor There is spill for example, which is a Twitter alternative created by former Twitter engineers And that is a popular alternative to black Twitter blue sky is another alternative that has attracted popular shit posters on Twitter Along with a lot of lefties and trans people and then there's also mastodon, which I don't necessarily understand myself But still that platform has attracted millions of Twitter refugees, but out of all of the most popular Twitter alternatives so far. I Mean you can't even question it threads has quickly secured its spot as the biggest Twitter competitor And this was expected because Lover Marhatem meta has a lot of clout Within this tech industry and even if it never actually Overtakes Twitter even if it fizzles out at some point just knowing that Elon Musk is sweating and seething as much as he Already is has already made the existence of this app worthwhile in my opinion Ideology