On Twitter, each user can now view only a certain number of Tweets per day. So what’s the “real” reason for this?
Twitter, which Elon Musk bought in September 2022, has recently made another astonishing decision. Daily to all users on Twitter Tweet view limit had been brought.
While Musk stated that the decision was taken against data scraping and system manipulations that reached very high volumes, another claim was made in the local media. In this claim, based on Bloomberg, Musk did not pay Google for the cloud service, that the recent restrictions are a result of this. expressed.
Claim between Twitter and Google:
According to the allegations in question, Elon Musk started not to pay for Google’s cloud service, which Twitter benefits from. As a result of this decision, Google also decided to restrict Twitter. As a result of this restriction decision, the Twitter team found the remedy. reflecting the effects of the restriction on users found it.
No other details were included in the allegations.
But that’s not the point:
When we look at the source news of Bloomberg, we can reach the information that Elon Musk refused to pay a fee to Google. However, in case of Google’s non-payment, against Twitter There is no information about any restrictions. The case is a little different.
The news on June 21 states that Twitter has started paying the bills again thanks to its new CEO, Linda Yaccarino. In fact, this is the essence of the news. However, the restriction information does not indicate that the non-payment if it continues it is mentioned as follows:
“Google had some leverage over which it could pressure Twitter to pay, including restricting some aspects of its cloud computing platform.”
In other words, Bloomberg reports that Twitter may face Google’s restrictions if it does not pay. However, Twitter had eliminated this situation by continuing the payments with its new CEO.
Misunderstanding of the event in the local media, misunderstanding of the above sentence originates.
According to the information transferred, the relations of the two companies began to return to normal after the decision of the new CEO.
How much did Twitter pay Google?
According to estimates obtained by Bloomberg from two sources, Twitter is a part of Google’s cloud service. in the range of 200 to 300 million dollars per year pays a fee. Twitter uses its cloud service mostly for data analytics and machine learning.
What is the latest situation in the Twitter – Google relationship?
According to the news, the new CEO’s decision to pay has normalized relations between the two companies. On top of that, CEO Yaccarino and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian like advertising and Google’s use of the Twitter API. It also started negotiations for an extra business partnership.
So what’s the “real” reason for the Tweet view limit?
Our only source of information on this subject continues to be Elon Musk for now. So the restriction, “to avoid excessive data scraping and system manipulation“. Well, what do these words tell us? At this point, the biggest consensus is on the following issue:
Twitter, especially for the development of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT free artificial intelligence training platform had turned. As a matter of fact, the fact that all artificial intelligence tools automatically benefited from Twitter thousands of times per second, also put a great load on the servers.
Having repeatedly stated that he does not like ChatGPT at the moment, Musk and Twitter also decided to take a precaution against it. Twitter has brought a tweet viewing limit to its users. Although this limitation will upset normal users, the systems used for the development of artificial intelligence systems It hurts a thousand times more.
These systems receive and analyze hundreds of thousands of Tweets from Twitter every day, train themselves with these Tweets, and even share.
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