LemmyAtem ( @LemmyAtem@beehaw.org ) 106•1 year agoTwitter’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.
cavemeat ( @cavemeat@beehaw.org ) 42•1 year agoThat is…childish and unprofessional to say the least.
maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) 11•1 year agoThis is why they are getting fined for more than the company is worth in Germany, they also responded to the German Data Protection Authority’s inquiries with poop emojis.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
I’m gonna need more popcorn for this.
TenNinetythree ( @TenNinetythree@vlemmy.net ) 3•1 year agoOh, wow! I didn’t even hear that particular piece of news. That’s hilarious!
ImFresh3x ( @ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ) English12•1 year agoBecause 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.
dantheclamman ( @dantheclamman@lemmy.world ) 53•1 year agoIf 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
maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) 28•1 year agoThe
socialcredit 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. SomeGuyNamedPaul ( @SomeGuyNamedPaul@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year agoBig companies and even countries very much so have credit ratings. That’s what bond ratings are.
supernovae ( @supernovae@readit.buzz ) 49•1 year agoHave they paid for any of their offices?
dope ( @dope@beehaw.org ) 68•1 year agoValid 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. 😂
pete ( @pete@lemmy.world ) 28•1 year agoWonder 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.
ConfinesCalvary ( @ConfinesCalvary@beehaw.org ) 29•1 year agoApparently 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.
pete ( @pete@lemmy.world ) 16•1 year agoHeh, 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.
PoorlyShavedApe ( @PoorlyShaveApe@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year agoApparently 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.
Gigagoblin ( @Gigagoblin@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago“Won’t have to pay if I get rid of the block function. It’s not harassment if everyone’s being harassed!”
-lil musky, probably
Hot Dog Water ( @NotMerritStone@beehaw.org ) 18•1 year agoIf 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.
bouncing ( @bouncing@partizle.com ) 14•1 year agoI’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 $968,000 that the landlord could draw upon if the company failed to pay its rent, and the lease agreement said Twitter must replenish that letter of credit within 10 days if that were to happen.
The landlord used the letter of credit toward the unpaid rent this March, according to the complaint, but Twitter failed to restore the letter of credit within 10 days, as outlined in its lease.
Basically yes, non-payment of rent.
GlitzyArmrest ( @GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world ) 11•1 year agoI don’t think they’ve even paid any bills.
fox ( @fox@beehaw.org ) 48•1 year agoTwitter’s response to a request for comment regarding its Boulder offices was an automatic email with a poop emoji. Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted in May that this is the new auto-response for press inquiries.
Wow!
What a save!
Fmstrat ( @Fmstrat@lemmy.one ) 6•1 year agoCalculated.
abcd ( @abcd@feddit.de ) 3•1 year ago$#@%!
spectraphysics ( @spectraphysics@sopuli.xyz ) 1•1 year agoThe auto response is more eloquent and substantive than anything that would come from Eeyore’s mouth anyway
Valliac ( @Valliac@beehaw.org ) 30•1 year agoAs you can see, Twitter is now firmly in Act II: ‘Finding Out’
ApathyMoose ( @ApathyMoose@beehaw.org ) 30•1 year agoWaiting for him to declare Squatters Rights.
" I…Declare…SQUATTERS RIGHTS!!!"
xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 4•1 year ago“You can’t say sqatters rights and expect anything to happen”
cmsd2 ( @cmsd2@lemmy.world ) 3•1 year agohe didn’t say it. he DECLARED it!!!
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX ( @KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year agoHe is a sovereign citizen.
Yoru_Sulfur ( @Yoru_Sulfur@lemmy.davidbuckley.ca ) 29•1 year agoarchive.org link to get around paywall.
TrickyNuance ( @TrickyNuance@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year agohttps://12ft.io/<url>
Edit: Seems like the link isn’t working now. 12ft.io still kicks ass.
You can make a bookmarklet out of this, and I highly recommend it.
JigglySackles ( @JigglySackles@lemmy.world ) 2•1 year agoThat’s an awesome suggestion. It didn’t work out for me though. The page never loaded. Probably a conflict with one of my extensions.
neal ( @neal@lemmy.world ) 3•1 year agoSame - I keep getting a verification expired notification but the page never loads.
dreadedchalupacabra ( @dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.org ) 27•1 year agoHow much does this dude have to do before everyone sues the pants off of him? We should be past that stage months ago.
Greyscale ( @greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ) 7•1 year agoThe mill of the law turns slowly, but it does mill fine.
magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 26•1 year agoIf you’re going to link to an article that’s behind a paywall, please warn us.
My bad, I have Bypass Paywalls Clean so I didn’t even notice the paywall!
dreadedchalupacabra ( @dreadedchalupacabra@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year agoRespectfully dude, it’s not everyone else’s job to police content for you. Paywalls are everywhere, it’s the internet.
Hirom ( @Hirom@beehaw.org ) 8•1 year agoA 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 tracking by advertisers.
magnetosphere ( @HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year agoI agree that paywalls can be fair, and I appreciate your additional analysis of the situation. I’m not okay with being tracked.
Nooch ( @alottachairs@beehaw.org ) 24•1 year agoElon’s next tweet: “Squatters Rights! Very Interesting!! We are looking into it!!”
AlexTheTurtle ( @AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 24•1 year agoThis is hilarious. Fuck musk
Ralphensnitch ( @Ralphensnitch@lemmy.world ) 22•1 year agoSo 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.
Tkltangent ( @Tkltangent@lemmy.world ) 21•1 year agoI’m curious how Twitter is still running. How can the servers stay up as the support structure rots around them…
atlasraven31 ( @atlasraven31@lemm.ee ) 12•1 year agoMaybe they pay in Exposure
zurohki ( @zurohki@lemmy.fmhy.ml ) 2•1 year agoPeople die from exposure.
Rakn ( @Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 5•1 year agoI 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.
maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) 5•1 year agoTwitter 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.
MrMuz ( @MrMuz@lemmy.world ) 18•1 year ago _MoveSwiftly ( @_MoveSwiftly@lemmy.world ) 18•1 year agoWill be nice to go there and not see their office anymore.
JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year agoOk maybe you can tell me. Is this referring to Boulder Colorado? It doesn’t mention the state anywhere in the article.
bouncing ( @bouncing@partizle.com ) 9•1 year agoIt’s from the Denver Business Journal.
JillyB ( @JillyB@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year agoAhh. Didn’t notice that.
Rakn ( @Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•1 year agoWhat does that mean?
bouncing ( @bouncing@partizle.com ) 7•1 year agoThat means that it’s from a journal in Denver. Boulder is 15 miles from Denver.
Rakn ( @Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de ) 3•1 year agoAh. I didn’t knew. Thanks!
KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX ( @KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year agoI mean I suppose it’s possible they cover stories from all over the US or the rest of the world too.
tate ( @tate@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year agoyes, CO. I recognize many of the street names.