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Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users (theconversation.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin.

It took me 3 minutes of slow loading to get this and this.

It's been over half an hour now and I still have a blank twitter page, what if today is the day twitter actually goes down.

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[–] Tar_alcaran 110 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Google Cloud hosts many of Twitter’s trust and safety services. If the disagreement isn’t resolved by the end of the month, and if Twitter severs ties with Google Cloud, this could seriously threaten its ability to fight spam, remove child sexual abuse material and generally protect accounts."

So, it only breaks things that are vitally important for Twitter, as well as legally mandated, but not anything Musk actually cares about...

[–] Determinator 39 points 1 year ago

Yea exactly, clearly intentional in a manner that his rabid fanboys will gloss right over and direct their rage at Google or whoever else he ends up blaming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When I first heard all of this I thought it was just a ridiculous rumour. Out of all the things Elon has done this probably surprises me the most. Google is probably one of a handful of entities that he can't push around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m surprised any other entities let him push them around? What is actually in it for anyone to do anything for this stupid waste of carbon and water?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They want the money or its a sunk cost. Very few companies can afford to say no to billions of dollars and someone like Google just has to push a button in order to pull out of the deal, there's no aftermath to clean up. On the other hand, you have someone like their office landlord which will have to put in a lot of work to find new tenants and clean up the property. They won't be so willing to cut ties.