We contacted Twitter via email for comment, but the company reportedly cut its communications staff and the only public statements made in recent weeks have been from Musk's own Twitter account.
The company, led by CEO Fangjin Yang, says Twitter made the first four quarterly payments totaling $4.4 million. Imply Data sent an invoice for the fifth payment on Oct. 1 — before Musk completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter in late October — indicating payment was due by Nov. 30, according to Imply Data's suit.
The company's suit says a message it received on Twitter's vendor portal indicated that Martin O’Neill, the head of Global Strategic Sourcing at Twitter, told the company's procurement officer: “A heads up that we will not be paying Imply any longer.”