Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California, which operated and was named for its flagship social media network of the same name prior to its rebrand as X. In addition to Twitter, the company previously operated the Vine short video app and Periscope livestreaming service. In April 2023, Twitter merged with X Holdings and ceased to be an independent company, becoming a part of X Corp.
AITwitter, Inc. filed this lawsuit in July 2022 in the Delaware Court of Chancery after Elon Musk attempted to back out of his agreement to acquire the company for approximately $44 billion — $54.20 per share. Musk had signed a merger agreement in April 2022 and then, less than three months later, purported to terminate the deal, citing what he claimed were material misrepresentations by Twitter about the number of spam and bot accounts on its platform. Twitter sought specific performance — a court order compelling Musk to complete the acquisition at the agreed price — rather than money damages.
Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick agreed to expedite the case to an October 2022 trial date, a timeline Musk vigorously resisted. The litigation moved rapidly through discovery, during which Musk sought extensive information about Twitter's bot-counting methodology and Twitter sought sanctions against Musk for alleged discovery misconduct. A whistleblower complaint from a former Twitter security executive, Peiter Zatko, injected additional complexity into the proceedings by raising questions about Twitter's internal security practices.
With trial imminent and the litigation going poorly for Musk, he reversed course in October 2022 and agreed to proceed with the original deal on its original terms. The parties jointly sought a stay of the litigation, and the case was voluntarily dismissed after the acquisition closed. Musk took Twitter private, subsequently rebranding the company and its platform as X. Several related proceedings, including a petition by PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan seeking public access to sealed court materials, were also part of the docket.
AIWriter, Inc. (formerly known as Qordoba, Inc.), an AI writing assistant company, filed this breach of contract lawsuit in February 2023 in San Francisco Superior Court against Twitter, Inc. following Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter in late 2022. Writer alleged that Twitter had breached a commercial contract for software services — likely a subscription or enterprise software agreement — by failing to pay amounts owed after the acquisition. The case was one of many vendor and contractor lawsuits filed against Twitter in the months following Musk's takeover, as the new management sought to drastically cut costs and reportedly directed the company to stop paying or dispute numerous existing vendor obligations.
AIBlueprint Studios, a San Francisco event production and experiential marketing company, filed this breach of contract lawsuit in February 2023 in San Francisco Superior Court against Twitter, Inc. The complaint arose from Twitter's failure to pay for services Blueprint had provided under a contract with the company. Blueprint Studios is known for producing large-scale corporate events and experiences, and had an ongoing commercial relationship with Twitter before Elon Musk's acquisition in October 2022. The case was one of many vendor and contractor suits filed against Twitter in the months after the acquisition, as the new management sought to reduce costs by disputing or refusing to honor existing vendor obligations.
AIInnisfree M&A Incorporated, a proxy solicitation and shareholder advisory firm based in New York, filed this breach of contract lawsuit in February 2023 in New York Supreme Court against Twitter, Inc. The case was one of many vendor and contractor disputes that emerged after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter in October 2022, as the new management reportedly stopped paying or disputed numerous existing vendor contracts in a broad cost-cutting effort. Innisfree had provided proxy solicitation services to Twitter — the type of services typically used in shareholder votes and major corporate transactions — and alleged Twitter had failed to pay for those services under the parties' contract.
AIAnalysis Group, Inc., a prominent economic consulting firm headquartered in Boston, filed this breach of contract lawsuit in February 2023 in the District of Massachusetts against Twitter, Inc. Analysis Group alleged that it had entered into a series of written contracts with Twitter beginning in July 2022 — contracts that were executed not only by Twitter but also by its authorized representatives — and that Twitter had failed to pay for services rendered under those agreements. Analysis Group provides economic, financial, and strategy consulting services to companies, law firms, and government agencies, and the work in question was performed for Twitter before and after Elon Musk's acquisition of the company. The suit was one of a large number of vendor actions filed against Twitter following the acquisition, as the new ownership was widely reported to have directed the company to stop paying or to contest numerous vendor invoices.
AITina Huang filed this gender discrimination class action in March 2015 in San Francisco Superior Court against Twitter Inc. in case CGC-15-544813 before Judge Mary Wiss, represented by Lohr Ripamonti & Segarich LLP. Huang alleged that Twitter systematically discriminated against female employees in promotions, maintaining a glass ceiling in its engineering and management ranks.
Twitter was represented by Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Lynne Hermle, Jessica Perry, Shannon Seekao, and Megan Lawson). Twitter filed an answer in April 2015. Huang applied for complex case designation in May 2015, supporting the designation with a declaration describing the scope of the proposed class action.
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