[glroyal]

Meta succeeded in cloning Twitter only because it picked up engineers who were let go after Musk acquired the company.

Dead weight, albeit dead weight who understood how Twitter works under the hood (the timeline data structure has confounded every would-be Twitter competitor until now, which is circumstantial but probable cause that the former engineers have transferred Twitter's fundamental trade secrets to Zuckerberg).

[giantrobot]

How does this idea even pass your bullshit detector? Threads is an Instagram post without a picture attached. Something that's existed for a decade.

Twitter trotting that accusation out was just stupid but people believing it and repeating it, that's just amazing. A timeline data structure confounded Twitter competitors? You're seriously fucking suggesting that? A timeline. Yikes.

[Timon3]

Meta states that no former Twitter employees worked on Threads: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-accuses-meta-...

Do you have any proof otherwise?

[kstrauser]

Fundamental trade secrets... like how to build a large social network platform. Yes, it would surely be impossible for the Facebook and Instagram folks to build another platform without stealing “trade secrets” from Twitter. /s