[HN Gopher] Twitter stopped paying its Redis Labs bills, then Tw...
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       Twitter stopped paying its Redis Labs bills, then Twitter Spaces
       failed DeSantis
        
       Author : davidmurphy
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2023-05-26 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | davidmurphy wrote:
       | Before Gov. DeSantis' glitchy campaign launch on Twitter Spaces,
       | Twitter stopped paying Redis Labs--whose software is crucial for
       | Twitter Spaces.
       | 
       | -- Article except: "Starting in 2015, Twitter paid a firm, Redis
       | Labs, for the software to support Periscope, a live audio- and
       | video-streaming service it had bought that year, said a person
       | with direct knowledge of the matter. Twitter started Spaces in
       | November 2020 during the pandemic-fueled fever for online audio
       | forums, using Redis to support that, too. After Musk's takeover,
       | Twitter stopped paying its Redis Labs bill but continued to use
       | the Redis Cloud software, said a person with direct knowledge. At
       | Redis Labs, executives discussed whether to shut off Twitter's
       | use of its software or intentionally degrade the software's
       | performance to pressure Twitter to pay, said the person. At the
       | end of last year, Twitter put its contract with Redis Labs on a
       | list of potential cuts, according to another person with direct
       | knowledge of the move. At that time, the media infrastructure
       | team that runs Spaces lobbied to keep the contract, calling Redis
       | a "hard requirement" to operate the feature, the person said.
       | (Mark Kalman, who runs the media infrastructure group under Musk,
       | declined to comment.)
       | 
       | https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-cut-key-soft...
        
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