<story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&amp;#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;lindayacc&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1676965566597464065&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;lindayacc&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1676965566597464065&lt;/a&gt;), the arrival of Threads is &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>edavis</author><text>&amp;gt; the arrival of Threads is definitely an existential threat for Twitter&lt;p&gt;I had a similar thought when I joined Threads last night and within 30 seconds saw the accounts of Adam Schefter, Adrian Wojnarowski, and Shams Charania all actively posting.&lt;p&gt;If you follow NFL and NBA news you&amp;#x27;ll know these names but for anybody that doesn&amp;#x27;t, these insider accounts are firmly at the center of the NFL and NBA breaking news universe and for going on a decade now Twitter was where you went to follow them.&lt;p&gt;What Threads has done is break that monopoly Twitter had on this sort of thing. It gives regular users a clean, familiar, functional, working UI with a simple onboard process and it gives high-profile accounts a stable platform, a verified badge, and a boatload of users.&lt;p&gt;Could Twitter survive if it was no longer the epicenter of North American sports discussion? Probably, but it would be a big loss and would signal to other communities on there that Twitter&amp;#x27;s expiration date is rapidly approaching.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads</title><url>https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>minimaxir</author><text>Between this and Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino&amp;#x27;s weird tweet about how great Twitter is (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;lindayacc&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1676965566597464065&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;lindayacc&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1676965566597464065&lt;/a&gt;), the arrival of Threads is &lt;i&gt;definitely&lt;/i&gt; an existential threat for Twitter.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>3cats-in-a-coat</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know Linda Yaccarino well, but so far all her statements, internal and public, read like cringe parody of corporate mediocrity.</text></comment>