Twitter notifies that there are no results when searching for content with the threads.net daemon in the platform’s search field.
Meta made the Threads app official on Thursday last week. This platform is Twitter’s new rival as a decentralized microblogging app that is activated by logging in with your Instagram account, and in less than a week, the number of registered users reached 100 million.
Threads’ strong growth has been helped by its link to Instagram, although it seems to be a double-edged sword, since if users want to delete their account on the new social network, they will also have to close their profile on the photo app.
Despite everything, Threads looks like a copy of Twitter where there are ‘posts’ -photos, videos of up to five minutes and text posts of up to 500 characters- and you can interact with them through ‘liking’, ‘reposting’ and commenting. But beyond the features it offers and in the face of great competition, the blue bird platform has blocked links that redirect to Threads to mitigate rivalry.
Specifically, Twitter notifies that there are no results when searching for content with the threads.net domain in the app’s search field.
Twitter’s lawsuit
Last week, just hours after the launch of Threads, a lawyer for X Corp (Elon Musk’s company that controls Twitter) threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg’s company for appropriating the company’s trade secrets and intellectual property.
In the letter sent to Zuckerberg on behalf of X Corp by lawyer Alex Spiro, Twitter accused Meta Platforms of carrying out a “systematic, deliberate and illegal misappropriation”. In addition, the same lawyer alleged that Meta hired dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to the platform’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information”.