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

https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-is-refusing-pay-its-google-cloud-bills-platformer-2023-06-10/

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crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Good. Take it down, google

hildegunst@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yeah, I hope that fucking platform finally dies for real

WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 3y

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

loki@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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

tuliom@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

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

CrateDane@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 3y

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

If they weren't already...

john@lemmy.johnpanos.com · 3 pts · 3y

because of course they are lmao

imkmiaw@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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.

falcon@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y

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.

hglman@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

Have to think they would turn access off.

nova_ayashi@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 3y

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

stanleytweedle@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

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

tiwenty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (2 replies)

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

darkknight@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

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.

tiwenty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

Ok thank you, that clarifies it a bit :)

Flying_Lynx@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

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