Elon Musk’s own employees are using Zuckerberg's Threads
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It seems that Twitter staff flock to the Meta rival means that they believe it is "just better".
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Meta's new app Threads appears in this photo taken on July 6, 2023, in New York. (AP)
After Twitter's record-breaking launch, a recent report says a large number of its employees have gone to the rival service Threads.
This is true even though Twitter's Elon Musk and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg have been at odds more recently.
According to The Daily Beast, one Twitter employee even acknowledged that Threads was "just better", saying, "I'm going to get fired for this, but I work at Twitter right now and have never really used it. Here's to a new world!"
Another user remarked, "[Not gonna lie] the signup flow was really nice," praising the simplicity of the Threads registration procedure.
Read: Meta's Twitter rival Threads officially launched
But these workers are not the only ones, according to the publication, which cites a sample of 133 employees who have downloaded the "Twitter-killer app".
While there are now about 1,700 individuals working with Musk, it's possible that more people have joined.
Additionally, MailOnline discovered that several former and present Twitter staff members have used Threads to criticize the company or support Musk's site.
Threads has been dubbed "a mess of the hottest sort" by Bruce Daisley, a former vice president of Twitter in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
"I hope someone at Threads Towers has a busy day ahead doing computer stuff because this is a mess of the hottest sort right now," he said, adding in another post, "Welcome to Threads. I already hate it."
In the meantime, Twitter software engineer Tom Blacknell wrote, "Everyone should check out Twitter."
As for Dionne Grant, a partner manager at the firm, he jokingly posted, "Research purposes and that."
The announcement of this comes just after Twitter threatened to sue Meta for its new "copycat" Threads platform.
In addition to utilizing its rival's "trade secrets", Meta has been charged with poaching former Twitter employees to build the Threads program.
"Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property," Twitter lawyer Alex Spriro wrote in a letter released on Thursday, adding that "Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information."
However, Musk said, "Competition is fine, cheating is not," in a tweet to respond to the letter.
Director of Meta Communications Andy Stone said no former Twitter workers were involved in the engineering of Threads.
"No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - that's just not a thing."
