# representing Twitter in the dispute. 

By [OfsakVida](https://paragraph.com/@made3) · 2022-07-15

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Elon Musk wants to cancel his deal to buy Twitter, but the social media company is having none of it.

On Friday, Musk [moved to terminate](https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/08/tech/elon-musk-twitter-deal-exit/index.html) the [$44-billion acquisition agreement](https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/25/tech/elon-musk-twitter-sale-agreement/index.html), alleging that Twitter breached the deal by failing to hand over data he says he needs to [evaluate the number of bots](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/tech/elon-musk-twitter-spam/index.html) and spam accounts on the platform. Twitter's legal representatives hit back in a letter to Musk's lawyers Sunday, calling the billionaire's claims "invalid" and demanding that Musk follow through with the takeover.

"Mr. Musk's and the other Musk Parties' purported termination is invalid and wrongful, and it constitutes a repudiation of their obligations under the Agreement," reads the [letter](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522191300/d370677dex992.htm), which was signed William Savit, a lawyer at Wachtell, Rosen, Lipton and Katz, which is representing Twitter in the dispute. The letter was disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday.

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Musk has for weeks expressed concerns, without any apparent evidence, that there are a greater number of bots and spam accounts on the platform than Twitter has said publicly. In his Friday letter, his lawyer alleged that Twitter has "not complied with its contractual obligations" to provide Musk with sufficient data to evaluate the issue, despite having [handed over its "firehose"](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/tech/elon-musk-twitter-bots/index.html) of tweets on the platform.

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