Elon Musk’s latest cost cutting plan may risk trust and safety of Twitter users

In a recent turn of events, Twitter refused to pay its Google Cloud bills. The contract is nearing its renewal this month, and such a refusal can put the trust and safety of the microblogging platform at risk, as reported by Platformer on Saturday. Reportedly, last year, prior to Elon Musk’s takeover, the two companies signed a partnership in order to stand against spam and protect the accounts, among other things.

In February 2021, Twitter and Google Cloud signed a multiyear contract. The expanded agreement envisions moving the offline analytics, data processing, and machine learning workloads of Twitter to Google’s Data Cloud.