@Shamar Nope. I mean, do I have words left? No.
@Shamar eh there is not really an alternative though. There's AWS (Amazon) and Azure (Microsoft) but they're separate from their respective parent company's data collection habits. Only other alternative is self hosting
@Shamar
It doesn't explicitly say they're sublicensing data to Google, does it?
Or is that a requirement for running things on Google Cloud?
@gamayun @Shamar
Here's my hypothesis: public data / tweets are stored unencrypted, and private messages and data are encrypted. Google would have no more access to data on Twitter than Twitter gives everyone else already through their APIs.
Maybe Twitter is getting a sweet deal from Google in exchange for "private" data data though
@Zambyte @gamayun @Shamar #Google used to have a data feed deal with #Twitter for its web search index and later #GoogleNow (2009–2011 and 2015–?).
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft/microsoft-google-snag-twitter-search-deal-idUSTRE59K58N20091021
https://www.reuters.com/article/urnidgns852573c4006938800025778b007808ed/googles-realtime-search-update-does-what-twitter-wont-idUS216097470420100827
https://searchengineland.com/official-twitter-give-google-access-firehose-tweets-214345
Now no longer, it seems.
https://blogs.perficient.com/2018/02/22/how-much-does-google-index-twitter-in-2018/
The normal indexing activity probably still moves a lot of data between their servers. So it's easy for Google to make a sales pitch: "we noticed you could save a lot of resources if you moved inside our servers"...
@gamayun
I don't think it's the problem here. Does twitter pay in cash or in data? I don't care, but day by day, internet looks more and more like googlenet. Online shops can't survive without AdWords. Developers can't reach users without google store. Content can't reach readers without seo taylored for google. Now twitter can't handle data without google. I'm bracing for physical shops not being able to reach customers without google maps...
@Shamar
@Shamar Storing data on Googles cloud service does not imply that Google is allowed to use the data.
Embedding google ads (doubleclick) on a page and exchanging cookies with other ad tech companies using google cookie matching service sure does.
@Shamar o_O Hm? What's a "Twitter"?
@aral did you know this?