Elon Musk has further escalated his war of words with Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg by hinting that he is a behind the scenes parody account calling Meta boss “lizard boy.”
In the latest installment of their rivalry, a Musk parody Twitter account, which recently went viral for criticizing Zuckerberg’s Threads app, dubbed the Meta boss the “lizard boy.”
The July 7 post read: ‘I spent $44 billion on this app and now Lizard boy just decided to hit copy and paste. Now it’s personal. See you in the cage, Zuck.
He accompanied the tweet with a sideways emoji, sparking speculation that he is behind the proudly anti-Zuckerberg account.
Zuckerberg broke his decade-long silence on Twitter on July 6 by tweeting a Spider-Man meme to launch Threads.
The Twitter-like app Threads calls retweets ‘reposts’ and tweets ‘threads’. It allows users to post up to 500 characters of text and up to five minutes of video.
Musk has also threatened to sue the platform, accusing it of poaching former employees to create a ‘copycat’ app.
Twitter attorney Alex Spiro wrote in a letter published Thursday: “Twitter has serious concerns that Meta Platforms (Meta) has engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter trade secrets and other intellectual property.”
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights and demands that Meta take immediate action to stop using Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information.”
He also claimed that Meta assigned those employees to create copycat ‘threads’ with the intent of using Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property to further the development of Twitter’s competitor.
The decision to create the rival comes after Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October last year.
Since then, Musk has spearheaded a series of controversial moves, including cutting staff and limiting the number of messages people can see in a day.
That has caused the value of Twitter to plummet, with Fidelity recently estimating that Twitter is worth only a third of what Musk paid.
This week, the official account of the Tesla CEO responded to screenshots of Zuckerberg laughing at burger chain Wendy’s telling him to go into space to “really piss off Musk” by saying, “Zuck is a cuckold.”
Zuckerberg broke his decade-long silence on Twitter on July 6 by tweeting a Spider-Man meme to launch Threads.
Musk is reportedly training in martial arts ahead of his head-to-head battle with Zuckerberg, which took the tech world by storm.
He hit out at Meta’s new platform, claiming it spreads ‘false happiness’ like Instagram, which is also owned by Meta.
Musk responded to the news of the potential lawsuit by declaring on Twitter that “competition is okay, cheating is not.”
Zuckerberg has yet to respond to the threat of a lawsuit.
Threads has been dubbed the ‘Twitter Killer’ online amid animosity between rival billionaires who recently agreed to meet in a cage fight, with the Colosseum in Rome a potential venue, as well as Las Vegas.
Chef Gordon Ramsay, pop star Shakira, and Mark Hoyle, better known as YouTuber LadBaby, have already joined Threads and made their presence known on the app.
Zuckerberg said this week: “I think there should be a public conversations app with more than a billion people.” Twitter has had the opportunity to do this, but hasn’t succeeded. Hopefully we will.
Twitter has been in a steep decline since it was taken over by the former world’s richest man, who was eager to take on the project after becoming disillusioned with the site’s perceived biases and content moderation policy.
Elon Musk-owned Twitter has threatened legal action against Meta’s new Threads app
Zuckerberg and Musk joked about fighting each other, but now it looks like the fight could happen in court after the release of Threads.
Threads has been dubbed the ‘Twitter Killer’ online amid animosity between the rival billionaires who recently agreed to meet in a cage fight. In the photo: Musk during sumo wrestling training.
He said he wanted to build a ‘digital common square of the city’ where all voices could be heard and debated in a healthy way.
Changes in staff and features, and the launch of ‘Twitter Files’ took the site in a radical new direction in a matter of weeks.
Twitter’s revolution turned into a bloodbath in the process, cutting staff by 80 percent to hone the new direction, then losing users and advertisers as a small team struggled to handle misinformation, trolling, and impersonation. identity online.
Musk also recently announced limits on the number of Tweets people can see per day at 600. Users who paid $8 for a blue checkmark were able to see more, but were still capped at 6,000 views.
Twitter users have proclaimed that the site is “dead” from the controversial boundaries.
Musk said the restrictions are a temporary measure introduced because “we were getting so much data looted from us that it was degrading the service for normal users.”
