Jack Dorsey took aim at Meta's Threads and accused it of ripping off Twitter: 'We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones'

• Jack Dorsey criticized Meta's Threads saying it is a 'Twitter clone' and lacks any originality.
• The Twitter co-founder claimed that various social media platforms have imitated Twitter.

Jack Dorsey has taken another swipe at Meta's hot new app, Threads, bemoaning its lack of originality and calling it one of the many "clones" trying to imitate Twitter.

Facebook owner Meta launched its text-based social media network Threads on Wednesday, but the app is already attracting criticism, with some saying it has effectively ripped off the design of Twitter.

Dorsey, Twitter's co-founder and former CEO, tweeted his complaints about Threads on Thursday saying: "We wanted flying cars, instead we got 7 Twitter clones."

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He was responding to a post by Andy Allen, founder of the Not Boring app, who posted an image of various social media platforms side by side with the caption: "Gotta say, it feels like we missed an opportunity to reinvent social. Can you tell them apart?"

The image shows how similar the interface of platforms like Threads, Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky — a decentralized social network made by Dorsey — and Not Boring are.

One user criticized Dorsey because he made "two of the seven clones," referring to Twitter and Bluesky but the tech founder replied: "No. Bluesky and nostr are protocols that Twitter can build upon. Would remove some constraints and burden. Not competitive."

Elon Musk, Twitter's current owner, replied to Dorsey's tweet with a laughing emoji, likely in approval of the jibe as both have openly expressed their issue with Threads in the past few days.

Musk is already threatening to take Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg to court over the launch of Threads claiming in a cease and desist letter that the company illegally used "Twitter's trade secrets and other intellectual property."

There's a flurry of excitement around the Twitter alternative with over 10 million people signing up just within the first few hours of its launch, largely influenced by its link to Instagram which has around two billion monthly active users.