Twitter has to hand over data gathered by the former consumer product head to Elon Musk, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick ordered on Monday. In July this year, Musk had terminated the $44 billion buyout of Twitter citing inadequate information on the number of bot and spam accounts on the platform.

Chancellor McCormick on Monday denied Musk’s one page plea that he had filed at the Delaware Court of Chancery last week. In her ruling, the presiding judge said that Twitter did not need to “collect, review, or produce documents” from the 21 other records custodians that Musk’s team of lawyers requested information on. The exception being Kayvon Beykpour, the former consumer product head, who was fired in May.

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Beykpour had joined Twitter back in 2015 after his video app Periscope was acquired by the microblogging site. Through the years he quickly rose through the ranks and was instrumental in pushing Twitter towards live audio spaces, newsletters and other new products. Barely a year after Parag Agarwal took the reins as CEO in 2021, Beykpour was ousted.

Late last week, the tech billionaire filed a plea in the Delaware Court of Chancery to compel Twitter to release the names of people involved with the tracking and evaluating the number of spam and bot accounts on the microblogging site. According to Bloomberg, the social media company has so far released the names of “records custodians”, but they aren’t familiar with the data that Musk wants. 

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Twitter and Musk have both been prepping for their upcoming legal battle at the Delaware court from October 17 to 21. The two entities have been sending flurries of subpoenas to each other in a bid to gather evidence to support their claims. According to Musk, the social media company had failed to disclose adequate information regarding the bot and spam accounts on Twitter which could potentially affect earnings in the future if he went through with the deal.