Since the arrival of Elon Musk at the helm of Twitter, the social network has evolved to the rhythm of the escapades of its owner. New illustration with the revelations of Platformer, which claims that Twitter has refused to pay its bills to Google Cloud. A decision that could put the teams in charge of trust and security on the platform in difficulty.
Accessible on your computer or as a download for your smartphone, Twitter is the official application of the microblogging social network. Find all the tweets on your mobile device.
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Downloads:
46 -
Release date :
06/07/2023 -
Author :
Twitter -
Licence :
Free license -
Categories:
Internet-Communications
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Operating system :
Android, Online service All Internet browsers, Windows, iOS iPhone / iPad
However, time is running out for Twitter, which will see its contract with the Mountain View firm expire on June 30 if the situation is not resolved. As a reminder, the company founded by Jack Dorsey joined forces with Google in 2018 as part of a billion-dollar partnership to allow the social network to benefit from Google Cloud services and servers. Before Elon Musk took over the platform last year, cooperation between the two groups was strengthened in 2021 with the signing of a multi-year agreement to support Twitter in its data processing in order to combat spam, delete child pornography content and protect accounts.
Renegotiate contracts to reduce costs
Besides Google, Twitter had also relied on Amazon Web Services to complement its infrastructure in recent years. But here too, the microblogging site preferred to play deadbeat. The Information had thus assured that Amazon had threatened to suspend its advertising payments on the platform because of unpaid invoices. A dangerous game that could shake Twitter a little more, while the heavy bleeding in the workforce of the company, which now has nearly 2,000 employees (7,500 previously) has already made the social network very feverish.
However, seeing Twitter try to renegotiate its contracts at all costs is not very surprising, insofar as Elon Musk had from the outset ordered employees to find solutions to save money. It was particularly a question of saving between 1.5 and 3 million dollars per day, in particular in terms of expenses dedicated to servers and cloud services. Objective, generate up to $1 billion in annual savings on infrastructure costs. A strategy that raises concerns, because it can undermine the functioning of the social network.