over to my panel, joining us this evening is mike isaac, new york times technology reporter and carl tobiasrn to you because we were talking about that legal case there, the attorney for twitter threatening legal action. there are plenty of other twitter clones out there, do you think that elon musk has a case here? it is not clear now. the letter was very sharply worded, made a lot of allegations, but as zoe suggests we are not in a court of law, this isjust a letter. and we will see if litigation happens. but it may be that musk is quite threatened, and this lawyer who has written it is well respected, and represented musk in his acquisition when twitter sued musk at the time. and so they are both familiar with one another, and it is a strongly worded letter, but you have to prove it. and that is something we will have to see in the future. and maybe musk is threatened and maybe this is a strong response. but if you are going to litigation, you have to make the prove of the facts and that may be quite difficult to do. ~ ~ . . , and that may be quite difficult todo. ~~' . ., , , to do. mik

* historic launch, earlier i wasjoined by mike isaac, new york times�* technology reporter, and carl tobiassity of richmond school of law. to begin with, what we're seeing right is it seems threads is on track to be the most rapidly downloaded app ever. why do you think that is? the numbers are staggering. we have not seen anything like this since potentially chat gpt, the user signups over the course of two months, it broke 200 million users so it's crazy. i think it represents the desire that people want to basically have a twitter that is not owned by elon musk that they can use, and the past nine months or so under the ownership dealing with a bunch of really strong changes, erratic changes, and it has turned off a lot of the long—time users who wanted to go back to how the original twitter worked so they are open to new possibilities.— to new possibilities. taking a look at the — to new possibilities. taking a look at the numbers, - to new possibilities. taking a i look at the numbers, according to an sec filing from 2013, it took twitter for years to build the same number of users tha