Twitter is refusing to pay Google for cloud services. Here’s why it matters, and what the fallout could be for users - eviltoast

With the Twitter limits today, I think we are already seeing the fallout begin.

It took me 3 minutes of slow loading to get this and this.

It’s been over half an hour now and I still have a blank twitter page, what if today is the day twitter actually goes down.

  • sadreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Two corporation are having a fee dispute…

    How is any of this concerning to the online plebs?

    If twatter goes down, boohooo, don’t use it. Jfc

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      1 year ago

      Are you saying we can’t have a little fun watching Elon slowly destroy his new 44 billion dollar toy?

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        1 year ago

        Many people relied on Twitter before Dorsey left the company and have been stuck there, out of the blue they became hostages to the idiotic whims of a sick man who hasn’t had a healthy night’s sleep in what seems like decades, a mind eroding into dust.

        I prefer to feel empathy for these people. As with Reddit, this whole thing is a grotesque charade with plenty of collateral damage.

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      Unfortunately there are people, especially artists, who rely on Twitter for their career. Few social media platforms are widely used enough and enable viral spread enough to serve those needs. Mastodon unfortunately doesn’t have enough adoption for it, and Instagram can be a lot more fussy when it comes to sharing and discoverability.