[HN Gopher] Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bill
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       Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bill
        
       Author : nickwritesit
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-06-10 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.platformer.news)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.platformer.news)
        
       | activiation wrote:
       | Not sure if Twitter still need this contract because I can't read
       | the whole article.
        
       | Schnitz wrote:
       | Google should simply give them a deadline, pay within 30 days or
       | we shut your stuff down. If they don't pay shut it off and
       | collect in full. Everything else is unfair to customers that pay
       | in full and on time.
        
       | michaelteter wrote:
       | If that is true, then dump them! When a billionaire is too busy
       | to pay bills, then he should be shut off. Of course there will
       | always be some suck-up willing to front services to a rich
       | person, but usually the provider will get screwed on the deal.
       | 
       | Google needs to learn to be proactive instead of quietly reactive
       | on everything. They have no voice in the world, despite the
       | immense power they have. Perhaps that is a strategy.
        
         | BulgarianIdiot wrote:
         | Let me clue you in: it's not that simple. If Google simply
         | "dumps them", then Twitter will sue back with arbitrarily large
         | damages, which far outweigh the money Twitter owes to Google.
         | 
         | It all hinges on details of their contract (or lack thereof),
         | and Google has to tread carefully because the black PR of
         | Twitter dragging them around as a result (and you know very
         | well Elon is GREAT at playing the victim) will result in
         | massive losses from other businesses using Google Cloud.
        
           | esafak wrote:
           | Musk seems to believe he has more leverage than he does. Pull
           | a power move, get your power tested.
        
           | toomuchtodo wrote:
           | No one is leaving GCP because Google takes action against a
           | non paying customer. Those that do are best sent packing
           | anyway. You want good customers who are partners, not ones
           | that will attempt to extort you. Maintaining these
           | relationships leads to volatile/unpredictable revenue and can
           | diminish margins.
        
       | slater wrote:
       | The irony: "Keep reading with a 7-day free trial"
        
         | jrflowers wrote:
         | What does irony mean?
        
           | slater wrote:
           | here ya go, hth
           | 
           | https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/irony
        
             | jrflowers wrote:
             | Ah I see, it is ironic because Twitter _is_ paying for a
             | subscription to Platformer News
        
               | slater wrote:
               | No, it's because nobody other than folks subscribed to
               | platformer news can read the linked article beyond 2-3
               | paragraphs.
        
               | dbbk wrote:
               | It's not ironic
        
               | BulgarianIdiot wrote:
               | It's ironic that you say that.
               | 
               | (Like rain on a wedding day)
        
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