TECHDIGEST – The Director-General/Chief Executive Officer of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Abdullahi, has reacted to the ongoing confrontation between Twitter and Meta over the development of Threads app by the latter.

Kashifu, whose NITDA has the sole responsibility of developing programmes that cater for the running of ICT related activities in Nigeria, said the key takeaway lesson from the two technology giants’ spar is never to undermine the importance of “your staff”.

“Lessons learned from Threads vs Twitter: Your company is as good as its next product, and your next product is as good as the people who make it. So don’t joke with your staff.

” #ThreadsvsTwitter #CompanySuccess, ” Kashifu said in a post on his verified Facebook page on Friday morning.

PlatinumPost recalls that Elon Musk introduced sweeping changes in Twitter after acquiring the company, a move that saw to massive disengagement of its workers.

On Thursday, the microblogging site wrote to Meta threatening to take legal action over its new app, Threads.

PlatinumPost reports that the app went live on Apple and Android app stores in 100 countries at 2300 GMT on Wednesday and will run with no ads for now, but its release in Europe has been delayed over data privacy concerns.

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In a letter signed by Musk’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, and addressed to Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter said the company “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 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,” Alex Spiro wrote in the letter.

Also in the letter, published by Semafor, he accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”.

“No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee — that’s just not a thing,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a Threads post.

In his response to a tweet citing the news, Musk said, “Competition is fine, cheating is not,” in response to a tweet citing the news.

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TECHDIGEST – Twitter has threatened to sue Meta Platforms over its new Threads app, news website Semafor has reported, citing a letter sent to the Facebook parent’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Twitter’s lawyer Alex Spiro.

ALJAZEERA reports that Meta, which launched Threads on Wednesday and has logged more than 30 million sign-ups, looks to take on Elon Musk’s Twitter by taking advantage of Instagram’s billions of users.

Twitter has serious concerns that Meta has engaged in “systematic, willful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property,” Spiro wrote in the letter.

“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,” Spiro wrote.

Spiro, in his letter, accused Meta of hiring former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”, the Semafor report that was published on Thursday said.

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“No one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee – that’s just not a thing,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a Threads post.

A former senior Twitter employee told Reuters they were not aware of any former staffers working on Threads, nor any senior personnel who landed at Meta at all.

Meanwhile, Twitter owner Musk said “Competition is fine, cheating is not,” in response to a tweet citing the news.

Since Musk’s takeover of the social media platform in October 2022, Twitter has seen competition from Mastodon and Bluesky, among others. Threads’s user interface, however, has a striking resemblance to the microblogging platform.

Still, Threads does not support keyword searches or direct messages.

Spiro did not immediately respond to Reuters’s requests for comment.

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