Post AXIFGqOd1NRFA5bs48 by TomWellborn@universeodon.com
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 (DIR) Post #AXIFGqOd1NRFA5bs48 by TomWellborn@universeodon.com
       2023-07-02T13:54:00Z
       
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       What's Happening?Twitter's hosting contract with Google Cloud expired on June 30th.Word is that Elon has been trying to move everything off so he doesn't have to pay the reported $1 BILLION bill.Either he's done nothing, or that migration hasn't been completed yet.Google Cloud, out of contract, has potentially rate-limited Twitter's data.With tremendous foresight, Elon blocked access to non-accounts YESTERDAY in an attempt to mitigate the damage or negotiate lesser usage fees.Instead, this caused the embedded tweets on every website to fail to load and instead retry again, again, and again, resulting in a self-inflicted denial of service event everywhere.Elon is now imposing "temporary" view limits in an attempt to keep the site up at all until the migration is complete, he re-engineers the embedded reloads, or he pays his Google Cloud bill.Now he's decided to use the situation to try to sell subscriptions.Elon is neither a business nor a technology genius.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJN4f42JzzDKedjJg by agi@nrw.social
       2023-07-02T13:56:08Z
       
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       @TomWellbornAny source for this? Last news I saw about this topic were about how Twitter continued payments: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-cloud-bills-invoices-linda-yaccarino-payments-2023-6
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJN4fmhdviPZBXOwC by reneestephen@mastodon.social
       2023-07-02T17:49:01Z
       
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       @agi sounds like they renegotiated and are giving Google access to Twitter as LLM training data in exchange for a better discount. Still they may have had to reduce their spending or are capped.@TomWellborn