Twitter CEO starts fighting Musk’s battles, paying Musk’s overdue bills

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Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino has seemingly smoothed things over with Google after Twitter reportedly stopped paying its Google Cloud bills.

Sources familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal that Twitter has resumed payments to Google after “consistently” dodging bills that sometimes racked up to more than $20 million a month.

According to one source, Yaccarino hopped on a video call with Google Cloud’s chief executive, Thomas Kurian, last week, hoping to set things straight between the two tech companies. Now, it appears that Yaccarino’s management tactics were so effective that Google is weighing the benefits of forming “a broader partnership” with Twitter, possibly investing more in Twitter ads or paying to access Twitter data.