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[–] marcos 37 points 2 years ago

Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property

Storing 300 characters in a database is really hard. A small company like Meta could never develop that kind of technology.

[–] blazera@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

look at these genius billionaires fighting over who has the right to let people send limited text and pictures over the internet. The greatest minds of our time.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did Twitter even have money to pay the lawyers?

[–] Sludgehammer 14 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure that matters to Musk at this point, since he seems to be following the Trump business plan of "Promise richly and then skip out when the bills come due".

[–] ilmagico 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meta will respond with a cease-to-exist request to twitter

[–] goombakid 1 points 2 years ago

Or a letter that says "Come meet me in Italy and square up, lil bitch."

[–] FlyingSquid 6 points 2 years ago

Can't they just settle this with the MMA cage match like they were planning to?

[–] avater 5 points 2 years ago

let them fight!

[–] IdkThisDude 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm starting to believe that Elon wanted to destroy Twitter from the inside since the start. Lots of walking backwards with that social Network, like everything he touches

[–] Techmaster 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He just wants the world to know that he knows as much about social media as he does about cars and rockets.

[–] ozymandias117 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, I guess he succeeded

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

“I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.”

-Elon Musk Nov 15, 2022

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, this kinda obstruction from the Trump playbook is all they can do. Maybe it's Kremlin ordering Musk to do that. Who knows?