FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk attends the 2022 Met Gala celebrating, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022 in New York City.
Weeks after Twitter was sued for allegedly not paying rent on an office space in San Francisco, the social media platform has been sued by another company alleging non-payment of services.
The latest lawsuit was filed on Jan. 6 by Bay Area-based Canary Marketing, which says it designs merchandise for major brands, including La Croix, Gatorade, Slack and KFC. Canary — whose headquarters are in San Ramon — alleges in the suit that from June 2020 until August 2022, it provided goods and services to Twitter, and that Twitter paid for those goods and services within 60 days of receipt of an invoice. Beginning in September 2022, right around the time Elon Musk purchased Twitter for $44 billion and embarked on a personal austerity campaign, Canary says its invoices stopped processing.
“Twitter appears to interpret the [contract agreement] as allowing it to pay or not pay Canary invoices when Twitter decides to do so,” the suit reads.
Canary is suing for $392,239.11, plus interest. The company did not immediately return a request for comment. Musk got rid of Twitter’s communications team, part of a drastic workforce reduction since he took over. The company is also allegedly not paying rent on its main headquarters in San Francisco, separate from the non-payment of rent lawsuit at a different office space in the city. The headquarters also reportedly smell bad now, because Musk didn’t (or perhaps still doesn’t) want to pay for janitorial services.
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Alex Shultz is the local editor for SFGATE. You can reach him at alex.shultz@sfgate.com.
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