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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.

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

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.

At this point, I don't know why any vendors would trust Twitter. It's going to make it very hard for them to deal with other businesses. Elon can't be that dumb, so maybe he really is trying to tank the company.

What complete losers.

What I'm hearing is you can live rent free for about 3 months before you can be evicted by court order.

I'm so happy everyone is finally seeing Elon for the nepot baby he is.

lmao so, in other words, the richest man alive fails to pay his rent. what a time we live in~

A 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.

In related news, Elon Musk has been adamant about ending remote work, but that’s likely to be difficult without, you know, office space.

How many employees are even left at Twitter at this point?