Legal Opinion

Shenwick v. Twitter, Inc.

District Court, N.D. California

Decided October 16, 2017No. Case No.16–cv–05314–JSTPublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

JON S. TIGAR, United States District Judge

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS

Twitter is a social media company that, like other social media companies, depends on advertising revenue. Accordingly, how many users Twitter has, and whether those users are engaged with Twitter's content, are deeply important to its success as a company. In their complaint, Plaintiffs allege that Twitter executives knowingly made inaccurate public statements regarding these metrics, and failed to disclose internal information about them, resulting in an inflated share price…

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