The rivalry between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg has intensified in recent weeks, especially since the launch of Twitter’s rival app Threads. Notably, Musk and Zuckerberg were set to engage in a cage fight, which was later canceled according to the Twitter CEO’s mother, Maye Musk.
The launch of Meta’s latest social media offering, Threads, has only worsened the situation between the two companies. It didn’t help that the Meta team marketed their new app as the ‘Twitter killer’ and that the Threads team consisted of several former Twitter employees.
Shortly after the launch of Threads, Elon Musk threatened to sue Mark Zuckerberg in a letter sent using his lawyer, Alex Spiro. Musk has accused Meta of engaging in a “systematic, willful and illegal misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”. Twitter claimed that Meta had recruited several former Twitter employees who allegedly possessed unauthorized devices and documents from their time at Twitter and In. The employees were hired to work on the Threads app.
In a tweet that has gone viral with nearly 2.2 million views and 40,000 retweets, a parody account of Musk with the username @ElonMuskAOC shared a screenshot of a message it claims to have been sent to the Meta CEO.
The message contained an image in the style of a QR code with the F-word imprinted in the center.
Although the message was shared by a parody account, it isn’t too far off from the message Musk sent to the Meta CEO. in response to a screenshot of a conversation between zuckerberg And Musk responded to burger chain Wendy’s on the Threads app: “Zuk is an idiot.”
Meanwhile, reports indicate that the hype around Meta’s latest social media platform may be over after its initial success. According to various data reports Threads had around 49 million daily active users (DAUs) when it was first launched in early July. However, by the end of the second week that number dropped by half to 23 million DAUs.