Musk stiffing Google could unleash yet more abuse on Twitter, report says (arstechnica.com)

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Can't wait for all these monolithic sites to die.

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[-] withersailor@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

According to Platformer, Twitter relies on Google Cloud to host services "related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse material, and protecting accounts, among other things." That contract is up for renewal at the end of this month after being negotiated and signed prior to Elon Musk's takeover. Since "at least" March, Twitter has been pushing to renegotiate the contract ahead of renewal—unsurprisingly seeking to lower costs, Platformer reported.

That'll kill the site quicker.

[-] pcmacgeek@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Are these services developed and provided by GCP/AWS, or are they Twitter developed services running on their cloud platforms?

[-] borari@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not 100% sure on the answer to that.

Twitter relies on Google Cloud to host services...

So I'm assuming that means that Twitter is either using GCP to host cloud-based internally developed services, or SaaS deployments in the cloud, but that's just a complete guess on my part.> n Musk’s takeover. Since “at least” March, Twitter has been pushing to renegotiate the contract

Edit - This section was in the next paragraph lol.

Now, Platformer has reported that a Twitter service called Smyte—an automated anti-abuse and anti-harassment tool that was previously operating on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—will potentially shut down on June 30. This could lead to a flood of spam bots and CSAM on Twitter as bots and content could fail to be removed.

So it sounds like it's an internally built Twitter service that they host in GCP.

[-] million@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The phrasing of the article makes it sound like the author isn’t familiar with cloud hosting, which is odd because it’s ArsTechnia

[-] pcmacgeek@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think you're right. I wasn't sure if the Smyte part was different from what the first half of the article was discussing.

The author could have probably mentioned Smyte earlier... Just means Twitter isn't fighting over access to intellectual property, just hosting services (not that at this scale that's not also a problem)

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