Musk: Apple CEO Cleared Up Misunderstanding About Twitter on App Retailer

Elon Musk stated he was mistaken that Apple “threatened” to droop Twitter from the App Retailer, claiming he met with Apple CEO Tim Cook dinner and cleared the air over the difficulty.

On Wednesday, Musk tweeted, “Thanks @tim_cook for taking me round Apple’s stunning HQ” in Cupertino, Calif., together with a 4-second video of a pond. A short while later, he adopted up with this: “Good dialog. Amongst different issues, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter doubtlessly being faraway from the App Retailer. Tim was clear that Apple by no means thought of doing so.”

Apple didn’t reply to a request for remark.

The about-face in Musk’s tone got here two days after he unleashed a number of tweets attacking the tech large. “Apple has additionally threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Retailer, however received’t inform us why,” he tweeted Monday, together with alleging Apple has “censored” apps and had largely stopped promoting with Twitter.

It’s unclear whether or not Musk and Cook dinner mentioned what the previous termed the App Retailer’s 30% “tax” on in-app purchases. In line with a report by tech information outlet Platformer, the deliberate Nov. 29 relaunch of Twitter Blue — which was revamped to offer a “verified” blue check-mark badge — was delayed, and when it turns into obtainable once more customers could not have the ability to pay utilizing in-app purchases on iOS gadgets, to ensure that Twitter to keep away from having to pay Apple’s charges.

In the meantime, Twitter on Wednesday stated it would start “increasing” beneficial content material to customers — in different phrases, displaying tweets from accounts you don’t observe. “We wish to guarantee everybody on Twitter sees the perfect content material on the platform, so we’re increasing suggestions to all customers, together with those that could not have seen them previously,” the Twitter Help workforce wrote in a tweet.

As well as, Musk tweeted that “Twitter is purging a variety of spam/rip-off accounts proper now, so you may even see your follower rely drop.” The billionaire had tried to again out of his $44 billion settlement to purchase Twitter by, amongst different issues, alleging that the social community failed to offer proof to again up its declare that spam and pretend accounts represented lower than 5% of lively customers.

It’s been 34 days since Musk closed the Twitter acquisition on Oct. 27, and through that point Musk has dramatically shaken up the corporate. He fired its senior administration (and appointing himself CEO), shedding half of its 7,500-member workforce and reportedly prompting one other 1,200-plus workers depart over his calls for they decide to an “extraordinarily hardcore” work tradition. His ill-fated try and revamp Twitter Blue with the blue check-mark perk was halted after a wave of accounts impersonating manufacturers and celebrities induced havoc.

Musk additionally determined to reinstate Donald Trump’s Twitter account, after the ex-president had been suspended over his position within the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol assault. And he declared that Twitter will grant “amnesty” to beforehand suspended accounts (“offered that they haven’t damaged the legislation or engaged in egregious spam”).