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Twitter has reportedly refused to pay its Google Cloud contract https://t.co/MwU8iTmxsI pic.twitter.com/JF3rSOZUC7
— Engadget (@engadget) June 11, 2023
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From 11 June 2023:
More platform instability could be in Twitter’s near future. In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date.
Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline.
If Twitter can’t migrate the system to its own servers before the end of the month, Platformer suggests a shutdown would greatly impact the company’s ability to combat spam and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Before Saturday, Smyte had been already showing signs of strain, following Elon Musk’s deep cuts to Twitter’s workforce. In December, Musk reportedly asked Twitter’s trust and safety team why the automated system hadn’t caught a Twitter Blue user who had been impersonating him to pump a crypto scam. The team told Musk the system had been unstable for a week, crashing “at least once a day.”
On Tuesday 27 June:
▪️ Normal users were getting a message they were being put in time out due to alleged spam even though they weren’t posting spam and didn’t have any limitations of using the platform despite receiving the message
Yesterday-Today
▪️ In addition to the arbitrary and fake tweet viewing limit, other features such as + to add multiple tweets to a tweet post at once, or the Communities feature, were disabled or failing
▪️ Yours truly did a semi unscientific test by logging in to my irl account that has access and scrolled slowly enough to count 1,000 tweets. I still have access and can use all functions. Meanwhile my other account is still [rate limit exceeded] even though I never got to 1,000 tweets in last 24 hours (is it a calendar day or a rolling period 🤷♀️). Either way, still limited.
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