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Twitter accuses Meta of hiring former staff in cease-and-desist letter
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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The cream on top of this cherry is that Meta claim that they don’t have any ex-twitter employees.
“Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, told Semafor that Twitter’s accusations are baseless. “No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” he said.”
It's kind of weird that Musk assumes there's anything special about Twitter that you couldn't build in a few weeks with a competent dev team.
The only value Twitter has/had is its user base. There's no patents or intellectual property that can be sold off if they lose that.
Yes, It is definitely a case of taking US$44 billion and throwing it away. But it is worse than that, because Twitter was a resource for the internet community.
And his attempts to make money after the fact are as pathetic as a World Leader using his position to spruik tins of beans.
It is almost like some sort of performance art.
I never liked that the supposed public square on the internet was in private hands, it should've always been a protocol like Usenet or Mastodon where anyone could spin up a server and participate.