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tuliom@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reports

www.reuters.com

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Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills, Platformer reports

www.reuters.com

tuliom@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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Twitter has refused to pay its Google Cloud bills as its contract comes up for renewal this month, which could result in the social media company's trust and safety teams being crippled, Platformer reported on Saturday.
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  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
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    Good. Take it down, google

    • hildegunst@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, I hope that fucking platform finally dies for real

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        And Reddit should follow it in the grave so that everybody switches to Lemmy

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    what happened to twitter not paying rent? did he ever pay that yet?

    • tuliom@lemmy.worldOP
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      They continue: https://archive.ph/n4oQC

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    could result in the social media company’s trust and safety teams being crippled

    If they weren’t already…

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    because of course they are lmao

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    How does that even work when they don’t pay? Do they take them to courts?

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      Depends on the terms/contract. Since its twitter I’d think they’d have a contract, which states duration and how much they pay. Once they don’t pay, as long as the contract states they can cutoff service, well they cutoff service and/or servers. But again, depends on what’s in said contract.

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        Ok thank you, that clarifies it a bit :)

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    could result in the social media company’s trust and safety teams being crippled

    Is that the only consequence? What happens if they don’t pay at all, what would Google do? Genuinely asking, I have no clue.

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      MX records show Twitter is using Google Workspace too. I wonder if Google would threaten shutting down email and document access in addition to GCP.

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        That would be a fun day at work

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      Have to think they would turn access off.

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    The faster Twitter dies, the better. Reddit has a complicated history, but Twitter has done nothing but warp people’s sense of self worth and ideas of what social media is and what their presence should be online. It’s a legacy of violence upon the mind

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    Oh dear. Birdy going up in smoke. Nothing of (recent) value…

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