Twitter stiffed marketing firm $7,000 for a 'swag gift box' for Elon Musk that included a $689 Japanese whiskey and a branded cheese board, a lawsuit claims
Twitter ordered a nearly $7,000"swag gift box" for its new owner Elon Musk — complete with two custom-branded bomber jackets, a special cheese board, and a $689 bottle of whiskey — and then walked out on the bill,California-based Canary Marketing, which says it worked with Twitter for a decade on promotional items, like branded T-shirts, claimed in a lawsuit filed in California state court that Twitter suddenly stopped paying its bills in September 2022.
The invoice lists an engraved cheese board and $215 worth of cheese, the bottle of Nikka Japanese whiskey, and some space-themed merchandise, referencing Musk's passion for space exploration: an engraved rocket-shaped cocktail shaker and a moon ice mold. earlier reported on the gifts seemingly ordered for Musk. Twitter and Canary didn't immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, made outside of normal US working hours.
The tech mogul bought Twitter for $44 billion in late October. Since then, his leadership of the company has been characterized by some as chaos. Musk has been trying to cut Twitter's costs, which he's branded as out-of-control, by
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