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silentg · Jun 30, 2023

Starting today, Twitter made it mandatory log-in to see the tweets. Not a good thing.

Nafti · Jul 1, 2023

They are still having some major issues….

silentg · Jul 1, 2023

is it data scraping or are they trying to reduce the costs?

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

Nafti · Jul 1, 2023

silentg said:
is it data scraping or are they trying to reduce the costs?

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

It looks as though they have resumed their cloud services with Google.

Twitter resumes paying Google Cloud

rlm · Jul 1, 2023

silentg said:
is it data scraping or are they trying to reduce the costs?

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

I would guess both, because the cloud service fees are probably based on data transfer. I'd bet a huge percentage of their traffic is from scrapers, bots, apps, etc...