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Twitter’s response to a request for comment regarding its Boulder offices was an automatic email with a poop emoji. Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted in May that this is the new auto-response for press inquiries.
I can't believe this is real, what an absolute clown show.
That is...childish and unprofessional to say the least.
Because he, the Saudi princes, and the Qatar government didn’t overpay for twitter to be a successful business, but to buy influence and control information.
Have they paid for any of their offices?
Valid question that can be expanded even further. Has Elon paid for... anything?! Last I heard, Google is still waiting on their payment for their cloud services. 😂
Wonder how much of them not just killing the servers is to avoid a monopoly lawsuit/perception.
I'd assume if they (Twitter) were a normal non-social advertising company they'd just cut them off and be done. Granted it's hard to know how long they haven't paid, but my guess is basically since Elon took over.
Apparently the contract is up at the end of the month. So google is meeting there end of the deal even if twitter is not meeting theirs.
Heh, if I'm Google I'm just calling it. They have nothing to lose, a single Twitter team is a drop in the bucket for them.
Okay, I just got the funniest thought.
What if Google resurrects Google+ (I think that was its name?)?
It'll only be a week before they kill it again.
Once everyone is in there and comfy, they'd be like, "aight, we decided to close it because we're Google".
I wish, I really liked G+. My sharing is based on common interests, not relationship.
I also liked it! It was very much what one would expect of a social network for nerds.
Or what if they combine into (Google+Twitter)•Reddit
Apparently the parts of Twitter that run on Google Cloud are the parts dealing with safety. moderation, and anti-harassment. Musk loses nothing but Twitter becomes an even worse place than it currently is.
If you're bored and looking for something (un)interesting to read - you can see some of the legal filings surrounding the lawsuit for non-payment of rent on their SF headquarters on this website.
I don't think they've even paid any bills.
I'm assuming you couldn't get around the paywall, so here you go:
In May, Twitter’s landlord filed a complaint against its tenant Twitter, alleging that the company is behind on rent payments. The landlord is Lot 2 SBO LLC, affiliated with The John Buck Company, a Chicago-based real estate firm.
The complaint alleges that Twitter set up a letter of credit for $968,000 that the landlord could draw upon if the company failed to pay its rent, and the lease agreement said Twitter must replenish that letter of credit within 10 days if that were to happen.
The landlord used the letter of credit toward the unpaid rent this March, according to the complaint, but Twitter failed to restore the letter of credit within 10 days, as outlined in its lease.
Basically yes, non-payment of rent.
If I just broke contracts left and right, my credit rating would be ruined and I'd struggle to get any more financing. Yet this guy continues to leave a longer trail of financial wreckage behind him with few consequences. Our financial system is broken
The ~~social~~ credit rating system is just for poor Americans. Most people in the world don't have a credit rating, and neither do rich Americans or big companies.
Waiting for him to declare Squatters Rights.
" I...Declare.....SQUATTERS RIGHTS!!!!!!!"
"You can’t say sqatters rights and expect anything to happen"
he didn't say it. he DECLARED it!!!
archive.org link to get around paywall.
You can make a bookmarklet out of this, and I highly recommend it.
That's an awesome suggestion. It didn't work out for me though. The page never loaded. Probably a conflict with one of my extensions.
Same - I keep getting a verification expired notification but the page never loads.
This is hilarious. Fuck musk
If you’re going to link to an article that’s behind a paywall, please warn us.
A paywall can be a fair way for publishers to get subscribers and revenue.
Here it's less fair since it's an anti-adblock paywall that specifically targets user who obect to targeted advertising. It's trying to pressure readers into accepting advertisers tracking.
I agree that paywalls can be fair, and I appreciate your additional analysis of the situation. I’m not okay with being tracked.
Respectfully dude, it's not everyone else's job to police content for you. Paywalls are everywhere, it's the internet.
I'm curious how Twitter is still running. How can the servers stay up as the support structure rots around them...
Maybe they pay in Exposure
Twitter servers are run by Google in Google datacenters. If Twitter just ceased to exist but would continue to mostly pay Google, it would stay up and running.
I mean usually if these systems are well architected and have enough head room they will just continue to run. It becomes problematic if you introduce change and don’t know them well. Change is the biggest factor leading to incidents.
So everyone has to return to office, but they didn't pay the bills for said office? This sounds about right for today's Twitter. What an awful place to work now.
Get out! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Will be nice to go there and not see their office anymore.
Ok maybe you can tell me. Is this referring to Boulder Colorado? It doesn't mention the state anywhere in the article.
It's from the Denver Business Journal.
What does that mean?
That means that it’s from a journal in Denver. Boulder is 15 miles from Denver.
Do we know what they offices were used for?
rip twitter
I really don't feel like it was ever alive.
Depends on your usage. I used it many times to get support for various services I paid for and didn't get help using the regular channels. A public tweet to the company's Twitter handle about an issue did wonders. Besides that I used it to follow like minded people in the same hobbies as me. I did nuke my account when Space Karen took over.