Billionaire Elon Musk has claimed that Apple has threatened to remove Twitter from its app store in a series of Controversial tweets posted on Monday.
Executive billionaire of Twitter and Tesla said Apple was putting pressure on Twitter over content moderation demands.
This measure, which has not been confirmed by Apple, would not be unusual since the company has implemented it routinely rules and ex removed apps Like Gab and Parler.
Parler, which is popular with It was the American conservatives restored from Apple in 2021 after application updated that it content and practices of moderation, the companies said at the time.
Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter. Do you hate freedom of speech in America?,” Musk, who took Twitter private for $44 billion last month, he said in Tweet.
He later tagged Apple CEO Tim Cook on the Twitter account in Another tweet asks “what’s going on on over here?”
Apple did not immediately respond to the requests for comment.
“It wasn’t clear to me how far up Apple Food Chain This idea went internally and without knowing it, it isn’t clear how seriously to take any of This,” said Randall Baker, A.D professor in the University of Chicago School of Law.
the world’s most valuable The company spent an estimated $131,600 on Twitter ads between November 10 and November 16, down of $220,800 between Oct. 16 and Oct. 22, the week before Musk closed the Twitter deal, according to ad measurement firm Pathmatics.
between the list of The grievances tweeted by Musk were up to 30% of the Apple fee fee software developers for in-app purchases, with Musk posts meme indicating he’s ready to ‘go to war’ with Apple instead of paying the commission.
Fees drawn Criticisms and lawsuits from companies like Epic Games, the manufacturer of ‘Fortnite’ while attracting scrutiny of regulators worldwide.
Commission can weigh on Musk’s attempts to increase Twitter’s subscription revenue, in part to make up for Exit of Advertisers over content moderation concerns.
Companies from General Mills to luxury car maker Audi of America has suspended or paused ads on Twitter since the acquisition, and Musk said earlier this month the company has seen “huge” drop in he won.
Advertising sales account for about 90% of Twitter revenue.
The self-described absolute free speech absolute, and whose company is owned by in The past A few days back many twitter accounts including that of former US President Donald Trump blamed activist groups for pressure on advertisers.
Ben Bajarin head of consumer technologies in research Creative Strategies, said Musk may read too much in a regular The process that Apple goes through in Application review.
“Application review Apple’s is not perfect by any means and the process is constantly frustrating for developers But from what I’m hearing are two-way conversation “.
