Elon Musk on Wednesday tweeted that the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from Apple's App Store was resolved following his meeting with the iPhone maker's Chief Executive Tim Cook.
"Tim was clear that Apple never
considered doing so," the billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla said in a
tweet.
On Monday, Musk had accused Apple of
threatening to block Twitter from its app store without saying why in a series
of tweets that also said it had stopped advertising on the social media
platform.
He had later tagged Cook's Twitter account
in another tweet, asking "what's going on here?"
The world's most valuable firm spent an
estimated $131,600 on Twitter ads between November 10 and November 16, down
from $220,800 between October 16 and October 22, the week before Musk closed
the Twitter deal, according to ad measurement firm Pathmatics.
In the first quarter of 2022, Apple was the
top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48 million and accounting for more than 4
percent of total revenue for the period, the Washington Post reported, citing
an internal Twitter document.
Twitter and Apple did not immediately
respond to requests for comment on Musk's latest tweet. Apple has not responded
publicly to Musk's earlier tweets.
Among the list of grievances tweeted by
Musk on Monday was the up to 30 percent fee Apple charges software developers
for in-app purchases, with Musk posting a meme suggesting he was willing to
"go to war" with Apple rather than paying the commission.
The self-described free speech absolutist,
whose company has in the past few days reinstated several Twitter accounts
including that of former US President Donald Trump, has blamed activist groups
for pressuring advertisers.
Thanks @tim_cook for taking me around Apple’s beautiful HQ pic.twitter.com/xjo4g306gR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022
Ben Bajarin, the head of consumer
technologies at research firm Creative Strategies, previously stated that Musk
may have been reading too much into a regular process Apple goes through in-app
reviews.
"App review from Apple is not perfect
by any means and a consistently frustrating process for developers but from
what I hear it is a two-way conversation," he said.
"Tim was clear that Apple never
considered doing so," the billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla said in a
tweet.
On Monday, Musk had accused Apple of
threatening to block Twitter from its app store without saying why in a series
of tweets that also said it had stopped advertising on the social media
platform.
He had later tagged Cook's Twitter account
in another tweet, asking "what's going on here?"
Twitter and Apple did not immediately
respond to requests for comment on Musk's latest tweet. Apple has not responded
publicly to Musk's earlier tweets.
Among the list of grievances tweeted by Musk
on Monday was the up to 30 percent fee Apple charges software developers for
in-app purchases, with Musk posting a meme suggesting he was willing to
"go to war" with Apple rather than paying the commission. © Reuters
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