I think the both explanations can be true at the same time:
Twitter is refusing to pay a bill to Google
Twitter is severely abused by data scrapers.
One likely scenario is where Google itself is a main culprit.
E.g. Elon learned that Google is scraping twitter data on industrial scale to train its AIs, without paying anything to Twitter. This results in massive infrastructure expenses for Twitter, to be paid to… Google. Outraged Elon stormed into the Alphabet headquarters, but was politely asked to get lost. Hilarity ensues.
I think the both explanations can be true at the same time:
Twitter is refusing to pay a bill to Google
Twitter is severely abused by data scrapers.
One likely scenario is where Google itself is a main culprit.
E.g. Elon learned that Google is scraping twitter data on industrial scale to train its AIs, without paying anything to Twitter. This results in massive infrastructure expenses for Twitter, to be paid to… Google. Outraged Elon stormed into the Alphabet headquarters, but was politely asked to get lost. Hilarity ensues.