Musk spoke about Apple’s threats to remove Twitter from the AppStore

Apple has threatened to remove Twitter from its AppStore, billionaire and new owner of the company Elon Musk said.

“Apple also threatened to remove Twitter from its AppStore, but didn’t tell us why,” wrote He is on his Twitter page.

Prior to this, Musk said that Apple had basically stopped advertising on Twitter. “They hate free speech in America?” he commented. After that, Musk posted several tweets about the 30% AppStore fee, and also polled his readers on whether Apple should publish data on all of its “acts of censorship” that affect its consumers.

Musk officially became the owner of Twitter on October 27. The social network cost him $44 billion. In addition to Twitter, Musk also owns Tesla and SpaceX. Since the closing of the deal, the company has already undergone a number of changes: Musk dismissed the board of directors of Twitter, fired Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal and chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde.

In addition, on November 16, the businessman issued an ultimatum to his employees: start working “intensively” or quit. After that, according to Bloomberg and Reuters, hundreds of employees decided leave the company. Bloomberg also wrote that the head of the company plans to cancel the “lifelong” blocking of Twitter accounts. Yes, Musk returned accounts for rapper Kanye West and former US President Donald Trump.

Musk also first launched, and soon suspended selling a Twitter Blue subscription due to the spread of verified fake accounts posing as the official pages of politicians and celebrities. November 22 he declared about the record number of active users on Twitter.

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