Will the Twitter outage on July 1st 2023 prove to have been in part caused by throttling due to unpaid cloud bills
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This market will resolve to YES if it is published and accepted in mainstream news sources or acknowledged be relevant parties involved that the twitter outage was in part caused by throttling due to unpaid cloud charges.

Assertions/articles that do not talk about specificts about throttling or restriction of access to services will not be taken as enough evidence to resolve this market to YES as there is a lot of noise and speculation around both Musk and Twitter.

If nothing is acknowledged then this will resolve to NO on September 1st, 2023.

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I am expecting to do a bit more digging around, but as it stands I have found no evidence that unpaid cloud bills played a role in the outage.

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@VikKorrapati I need to see someone at google, twitter, or someone else who would have the inside story commenting publicly about this.

predicted NO

@VikKorrapati Platformer story is badly out of date. Twitter resumed GCP payments on June 21 thanks to Yaccarino: https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-google-cloud-bloomberg-news-2023-06-21/

Twitter resumes paying Google Cloud
Twitter has resumed paying Alphabet’s Google Cloud for its services, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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@VikKorrapati Also, Twitter hosts frontend services in their own datacenter, and uses GCP for data science.

Even if they stopped paying their GCP bill, it’s unlikely this would affect frontend services. Former Twitter engineer yesterday on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36556622

Twitter blogged about migrating their data warehouse to GCP. Does anyone have public info demonstrating GCP is used for more than data science workloads at Twitter? https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2022/scaling-data-access-by-moving-an-exabyte-of-data-to-google-cloud

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