Twitter’s former public relations agency filed a lawsuit in opposition to the corporate on Friday, accusing it of unpaid payments since Elon Musk took over the corporate in October of final yr. The PR agency and Twitter severed ties on November 16, three weeks after Musk acquired the corporate, however the agency says Twitter nonetheless owes $830,498 throughout six unpaid invoices, Reuters reported.
The PR agency informed the outlet that Twitter has stopped responding to its requests for funds, as a substitute sending an automatic pledge to “get began processing it straight away.”
This isn’t the primary time Twitter has been accused of not paying for a service, with a minimum of 10 distributors submitting lawsuits in opposition to the corporate for the reason that chief Twit purchased out the corporate for $44 billion in October.
Three former executives together with former CEO Parag Agrawal are suing Twitter, saying the corporate backtracked on its obligation to reimburse them for greater than $1 million in authorized charges. Bloomberg additionally reported that Twitter is late on greater than $10 million in funds to quite a few smaller firms from public relations to branded merchandise.
These smaller distributors reported that at a sure level, they stopped receiving private responses from the accounts payable division at Twitter. “Finally, it was clearly only a bot answering us with the identical reply again and again,” Norma Miller, CEO of White Coat Captioning informed Bloomberg.
Different firms and landlords have additionally accused Twitter of owing them cash in latest months and filed their very own lawsuits. The UK’s Crown Property filed a lawsuit in opposition to Twitter over unpaid hire on the firm’s London Headquarters again in January. The owner of Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters equally sought authorized motion over alleged unpaid hire payments as nicely.
