Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application.

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    Poaching? Didn’t Twitter drive out or lay off or fire nearly all their employees? You can’t get rid of people and then complain when they go work for somebody you don’t like.

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      Elon, next week: “Layoffs are free speech, but hiring the discarded rejects of another Employer is dumpster-diving and therefore theft.”

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      “We may have fired our staff and blocked our customers from accessing Twitter content, but they are still ours.” -Elon Musk

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      Those people we fired should have to starve to death.
      ~Elon, Probably

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      “If you don’t want to work like a slave, then leave! … no not like that”