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So, the argument they made hasn't been successful yet, so "who knows". Just because they make an argument doesn't mean it's accepted.
The judge could very easily say that Twitter does ultimately own the accounts, but that because the user has exclusive access said exclusive access is an asset the user can forfeit as part of legal proceedings.
More than one person can have ownership of a thing, just different senses of ownership. All of them are legally recognized, and some just take precedence over others.
By saying they have a superior claim of ownership, Twitter tacitly acknowledges that the users has a claim of ownership, they just say theirs is stronger.
The judge just gets to decide if a Twitter account is like a borrowed lawnmower where it doesn't get auctioned off on bankruptcy but instead goes back to the owner, or if it's like business rental agreement for office space, where the purchaser of the bankrupt business also picks up the lease, even though it's "more owned" by someone else.
The way policy and such is currently, a platform isn't generally liable for its user generated content if the platform is roughly neutral with regards to the content it publishes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
So they're not generally responsible for what they're users post because they don't pick which bits are visible and which aren't, generally.