• fireshaper@social.belowland.com
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    Elon: “These geniuses will be of great use elsewhere”

    The geniuses are hired by Meta to build a Twitter clone.

    Elon: “Not like that!”

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    All jokes aside I believe Meta said they have no former Twitter employees on their engineering team.

    I think someone smart foresaw Elon being a child. They deserve a nice bonus.

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      What do you bet in court proceedings it turns out that he in some way fucked up an NDA clause, thus torpedoing any chance his case had of succeeding?

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        AFAIK there is no case currently. They only threatened legal action.

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          I doubt there will be one. IMO this is just Musk talking shit because he’s mad people are ignoring Twitter.

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    I might be pretty ignorant here but what is so proprietary about Twitter/Threads? It just lets people make public status updates and share photos. Unless they literally used the same lines of code, how is it infringement and trade secrets?

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      It’s really not. Not to mention, like someone else said, Meta has said that they don’t even have any former Twitter employees on their engineering team for Threads.

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      It’s easy to make a website that lets random users post whatever they want and then display it in a feed. You could teach a novice how to do it in a weekend. Building a site that can scale to millions of users pretty much overnight is where the secret sauce is.