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Elon Musk: Apple threatened to yank Twitter from App store


SAN FRACISCO: Elon musk accused Apple Inc threatened to block Twitter Inc from its app store without specifying why in a series of tweets on Monday that also said the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on the social networking platform.
Billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla says Apple has been pressuring Twitter about content moderation requirements.
The move, which has not been confirmed by Apple, would not be unusual as the company has regularly enforced its rules and has removed previous apps like Gab and Parler.
Parler, popular with conservatives in the United States, was reinstated by Apple in 2021 after the app updated its content and moderation practices, the companies said at the time.
“Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do they hate free speech in the US?” Musk, who made Twitter private for $44 billion last month, said in a tweet.
Then he tagged the Apple CEO Tim Cookhis Twitter account in another tweet, asking “what’s going on here?”
Apple did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Randal Picker, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, said: “It’s not clear to me how far that idea has gone up the Apple food chain internally, and if I didn’t know that, it’s not clear how any implementation would have been done. any of this seriously.” Schools.
According to ad measurement firm Pathmatics, the world’s most valuable company spent about $131,600 on Twitter ads between November 10 and November 16, down from $220,800 between October 16 and October 22, a week before Musk ended the Twitter deal.
In the first quarter of 2022, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48 million and accounting for more than 4% of total revenue for the period, the Washington Post reported, citing an internal Twitter document.
Twitter did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment on the report.
‘Go to war’
Among the list of complaints Musk tweeted was the up to 30% fee Apple charges software developers for in-app purchases, with Musk posting a meme showing his willingness to “cause trouble.” war” with Apple rather than paying a commission.
The fee has drawn criticism and lawsuits from companies like Epic Games, the makers of ‘Fortnite’, and has drawn scrutiny from regulators around the globe.
The committee may consider Musk’s attempt to increase subscription revenue at Twitter, in part to make up for the loss of advertisers due to concerns about content censorship.
Companies from General Mills Inc to American luxury carmaker Audi have stopped or paused Twitter advertising since the acquisition, and earlier this month Musk said the company has seen “huge” drop in revenue.
Ad sales make up about 90% of Twitter’s revenue.
The self-described free-speech absolutist, whose company in the past few days has restored several Twitter accounts, including that of former US President Donald Trump , has blamed activist groups for pressuring advertisers.
Ben Bajarin, head of consumer technology at research firm Creative Strategies, says Musk may be reading too much into a typical process Apple goes through during app review.
“App review from Apple isn’t perfect in any way and is an frustrating process for developers, but from what I’ve heard it’s a two-way conversation,” he said. .

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