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

3 years ago by tuliom to c/technology

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.

crmsnbleyd 16 points 3 years ago

Good. Take it down, google

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hildegunst 6 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I hope that fucking platform finally dies for real

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WreckingBANG 7 points 3 years ago

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

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loki 15 points 3 years ago

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

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tuliom 1 point 3 years ago

They continue: https://archive.ph/n4oQC

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CrateDane 7 points 3 years ago

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

If they weren't already...

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john 3 points 3 years ago

because of course they are lmao

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imkmiaw 3 points 3 years ago

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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falcon 3 points 3 years ago

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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hglman 1 point 3 years ago

Have to think they would turn access off.

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tiwenty 1 point 3 years ago

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

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darkknight 3 points 3 years ago

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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tiwenty 1 point 3 years ago

Ok thank you, that clarifies it a bit :)

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nova_ayashi 1 point 3 years ago

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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Flying_Lynx 1 point 3 years ago

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

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stanleytweedle 1 point 3 years ago

Maybe Google should refuse to host their services until they pay, like how everything else works.

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