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Since Elon Musk took over Twitter in October of last year, he has done everything he can to cut costs. This included laying off thousands of workers, cutting back on services that were redundant, and now that includes not paying the Google Cloud bill.
As reported by the Platformer over the weekend, Twitter has not paid its Google Cloud bill, which is set to renew on June 30. Twitter doesn’t want to renew the deal with Google, and thus is attempting to move everything off of Google’s servers, before the June 30 renewal date, and the effort is apparently “running behind schedule”.
What does this have to do with trust and safety?
Twitter uses Google Cloud to house some of its services that it uses to moderate the platform. The biggest tool on Google Cloud, is the tools that is uses to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The tool is called Smyte, which is a company that Twitter acquired back in 2018. Even before this whole fiasco, Smyte was showing signs of strain, due to Musk’s many cutbacks.
This is really just the latest in platform instability under Musk, since he laid off so many people. Employees say that Smyte crashes at least once a day. In addition to that, Florida Governor Ron Desantis also had trouble announcing his Presidential Bid on Twitter Spaces, due to it crashing. Among other things.
Not to mention that this is not the first bill that Musk has refused to pay. He has also refused to pay the rent for its headquarters in San Francisco. California Property Trust, the owner of the building Twitter HQ is located in, sued the company for failing to pay rent.
It has also been delaying payments to Amazon Web Services, which has led the company to threaten to withhold advertising payments to Twitter. Which is its only real revenue stream these days, since so little people have signed up and paid for Twitter Blue.
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