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Judge orders sheriff to evict Twitter from Boulder office (www.bizjournals.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Have they paid for any of their offices?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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. 😂

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I don't think they've even paid any bills.