VirtimTwitter is getting evicted from its Colorado office over unpaid rent
This is a tl;dr based on smmry.com, the original was reduced by 68%:
Twitter is getting evicted from its Colorado office over unpaid rent A judge deemed that the company must vacate by the end of July.
It's another day, so here's another entry in the endless "Twitter is slowly becoming an empty husk" conversation.
The judge sided with the landlord and has given Twitter until the end of July to vacate.
The line of credit ran out a few months back and Twitter failed to make any additional payments.
TechCrunch unearthed another Colorado lawsuit aimed at Twitter, as a local cleaning company claims the social media site didn't pay its bills, totaling nearly $100,000 for services rendered.
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Hehe so far I actually did it manually whenever I read a news post without any comment yet 😉 But my plan is to implement a bot once I find some time 😊 Would love to see the bots from reddit join lemmy 😁
PekkaThanks for the summary. It would be great to see an actual bot for this purpose when we have too many articles to do it yourself. This was always a great way to get a basic idea whether the article was worth reading with that bot on Reddit.
I'm so happy everyone is finally seeing Elon for the nepot baby he is.
OK, the conspiracy theory that Musk is deliberately tanking the company is starting to become believable. Given his insistence on people working in the office, refusal to pay the rent seems to be a little contradictory. He may have to reconsider that policy
I don't think he even consider people not right around him his employees.
I remember there was a thread that explained it. But basically it was because you can write it off if you don't pay and you're not liable. He's basically downsizing. It's like how rich people don't pay taxes but normal people have to.
I'd be curious to see the thread in question if you can recall where it was.
It was a Twitter thread when he started refusing to pay, so pretty old now.
AnimoscityOr he was really successful at tricking people into thinking he was smart. Now that he's in the spotlight of the public more, people are shining the light and seeing that he just buys still and claims he made them.
MyOpinionWhat complete losers.
NumbersCanBeFunNot only that but what a complete loser of a "businessman" Elon turned out to be. Can't even pay your obligations...
FixedFunBring me 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code you've written in the last 6 months.
Such hostility.
PegatronIt's an Elon quote
Oh. Suddenly that makes sense.
doglmao so, in other words, the richest man alive fails to pay his rent. what a time we live in~
magnetosphere In related news, Elon Musk has been adamant about ending remote work, but that’s likely to be difficult without, you know, office space.
I like this journalist.
Twitter disbanded its press arm and its trust and safety council, so there’s nobody to reach out to for comment.
I really like this journalist.
It's refreshing to see one that doesn't pull their punches. It's also very refreshing to see the general aura of Elon being this genius fading away finally.
ElyssaWhat I'm hearing is you can live rent free for about 3 months before you can be evicted by court order.
That's actually standing law in Germany. At least for people and their homes.
I heard it's when you owe two months' rent, which is the case after 32 days.
That's actually surprisingly common.
cydA lot of stories like this have been coming out, but it's not clear that they foretell the doom of Twitter as so many people are assuming (or anticipating).
Donald Trump's various businesses showed long ago that large companies aren't necessarily harmed by shitty practices like not paying bills. And mid-2010s Reddit showed that a social media platform, once established, can survive terrible technical deficiencies (remember when Reddit was crashing daily?), simply because people tend to be too lazy to move.
Most likely outcome is that Twitter continues to chug along, maybe with outages here and there, not losing much traction. Maybe it ekes out a small profit, which Musk can use to salve his ego.
EmiIn related news, Elon Musk has been adamant about ending remote work, but that’s likely to be difficult without, you know, office space.
mrmanagerHe also wants people to be hardcore so I guess they will just work on laptops from the parking lot. So hardcore!
How many employees are even left at Twitter at this point?