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Twitter owner Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg have been at odds for almost a month now \u2013 the reason: the launch of Threads. Musk and company have taken potshots at Zuckerberg by calling Instagram’s Twitter competitor an “imitator” and \u201ccopycat\u201d. However, adding insult to injury, a report said that some employees working at the ‘legacy’ microblogging platform prefer Threads over Twitter.
According to a report by The Daily Beast, current employees at Twitter are enjoying the new platform.
\u201cI\u2019m going to get fired for this, but I work at Twitter right now and have never really used it. Threads is just better. Here\u2019s to a new world!\u201d a current staffer wrote on Threads last week.\u201c[Not gonna lie] the signup flow was really nice,\u201d another one posted in reference to the process by which users register for an account.
Those who already have an Instagram account can quickly log into Threads. They just have to download the app and use the Instagram credentials to sign up for the Threads app in seconds.
A ‘quarter of Twitter employees’ are on Threads<\/span>
The publication surveyed a sample of 133 current Twitter employees, identified by their LinkedIn accounts, and found that nearly a quarter (31 of them) appeared to be on Threads.
Even some of Musk\u2019s ‘loyalists’ have turned against him. Esther Crawford, who was a product manager before she was reportedly laid off in February, cheered Musk\u2019s management style. Crawford is now criticising her old boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve repeatedly thought \u2018it doesn\u2019t have to be this way\u2019 and yet I\u2019m repeatedly disappointed that it is. This is what happens when a powerful person lives in an echo chamber of their own creation,\u201d she wrote in a reply on Threads this week.
“Someone may want to check in on the CEO of the other app to see how she\u2019s coping. It\u2019s stressful dealing with a public meltdown you can\u2019t control, or stop,” she added in another post on Threads.
It must be noted that a portion of those Twitter employees may be simply checking the new platform out. Citing one Twitter employee, the report said that he was “here [on Threads] to learn stuffs,\u201d while another staffer\u2019s post read \u201cTest 1.\u201d
Elon is not taking Threads well<\/span>
In a letter to Zuckerberg last week, a lawyer for Twitter accused Meta of \u201csystematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter\u2019s trade secrets and other intellectual property.\u201d
The letter also claimed Meta hired former Twitter employees who facilitated the creation of its \u201ccopycat\u201d platform. Musk also accused Meta of \u201ccheating.\u201d
A Meta spokesperson denied the accusations, saying that, \u201cNo one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee \u2014 that\u2019s just not a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

‘Good times’ for Zuck<\/span>
Threads quickly gained popularity with the platform now having more than 100 million people signed up \u2013 making it the fastest app in history to reach that number.
According to a report by CNBC, In the two days after Threads launched, Twitter\u2019s web traffic tanked 5% compared to the week before.
\u201cThreads reached 100 million sign-ups over the weekend. That\u2019s mostly organic demand and we haven\u2019t even turned on many promotions yet. Can\u2019t believe it\u2019s only been 5 days!\u201d Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post earlier this week.
Meta has a history of controversies involving its users’ privacy. Even before the launch, there were multiple reports about the amount of data that Threads will collect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n