2y ago

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

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

Cloud computing is a way for businesses to access extra computational resources over the internet. Without it, the internet as we know it would malfunction.

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.

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- That could explain the limits today and changing APIs, blocking Nitter and users not logged in...
  
  The login-block appears to be exasperating the issue, by creating a pull loop, they are DDOS-ing themselves. ~source
  They turned off non logged in people, to save resources and it caused the opposite effect, too bad they fired all those developers.
  
  Oh good grief. I thought you were exaggerating.
- They fucked around and found out. This is all so fucking hilarious.