Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.

On Wednesday, Instagram parent company Meta introduced Threads, a text-based companion to Instagram that resembles Twitter and other text-based social platforms. Just hours later, a lawyer for Twitter, Alex Spiro, sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/110668974262324177

I see the end for #Twitter looming.......
Threads, the social media app aimed at rivalling Twitter, has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days.
The platform, launched by Instagram-owner Meta, has beaten a record set by Open AI's ChatGPT app.
Threads went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries, including the UK, last Wednesday.
Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said he "couldn't believe" the milestone had been reached so fast.
It hasn't all been plain sailing for Threads though - it is not available in mainland Europe yet because of uncertainty over whether it complies with EU data privacy legislation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66153244

Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme .
On Thursday, Twitter announced that it would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on its platform for the first time. But the offer won’t apply to all creators.

The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile far-right influencers who tweeted before the announcement how much they’ve earned as part of the program. Ian Miles Cheong, Benny Johnson and Ashley St. Claire all touted their earnings.

A former Twitter executive also cast doubt on Twitter’s revamped metrics, including impressions. “The numbers are totally and completely bogus,” she said. “It’s all completely made up. It really feels like they’re arbitrarily writing checks to people they like, which is not a sustainable creator strategy.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/

Twitter reminds me more and more of Russia, an increasingly isolated, dysfunctional, money-losing fiefdom run by a deluded sociopath with big plans and zero ability to execute them!
Sad to see as user since the app’s founding in 2006!
Yes, it was toxic but be honest: which popular social media is not??
It's up to the user to spend attention and not engage with any crap.
However, what happen now is brought on by that new owner which morphed the past few years into a total greyshirt moron!
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/110837578684639957

It’s been nearly a year since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, and more than the average landlord, he’s made some changes to the storefront: replacing the social media platform’s cheerful winged mascot with an ominous “X,” stripping all but paying subscribers of verified status, and turning it from a frenetic crossroads of breaking news and opinion to a playground for falsehoods and propaganda sowed by bad actors.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-10-10/elon-musk-twitter-takeover

What was once a platform where you could access open-source information that was reliable and free...has now been laid to rest by Elon Musk.
Yes, I'm talking about that little blue bird we've known and loved for years.
https://mastodon.online/@tweeterversity/111505603529545301

Elon Musk did not invent or create Tesla. He bought it.

Elon Musk did not invent or create SpaceX. He bought it.

Elon Musk did not invent or create Twitter. He bought it.