Twitter announced to employees on Wednesday that it will hold a shareholder vote on Elon Musk’s $44 billion proposed takeover by early August. It also reported it was working constructively to bring the deal to a close. Twitter’s top lawyer, Vijaya Gadde, told an employee meeting that current timing for the meeting is around late July or early August.

Musk’s lawyers are still warning that he may walk away if the company fails to provide him with detailed data on bots and spam accounts on the platform so he may accurately assess the prospects of the deal.

Twitter, for its part, has said it is continuing to share data with Musk’s team, including the “firehose,” a database which organizes all tweets on the platform by different parameters, such as user devices, or profile information.

Although Twitter normally uses that data for monetization, selling it to other companies for profit, it is giving the data to Musk for free as part of its efforts to close the deal. The firehose does not contain personal private data on users. It is unknown if twitter is also sharing personal private data on users with Musk.

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