Elon Musk on Wednesday tweeted that the misunderstanding about Twitter probably being faraway from Apple’s App Store was resolved following his assembly 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 mentioned in a tweet.

Thanks @tim_cook for taking me round Apple’s lovely HQ pic.twitter.com/xjo4g306gR

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022

On Monday, Musk had accused Apple of threatening to dam Twitter from its app retailer with out saying why in a sequence of tweets that additionally mentioned it had stopped promoting on the social media platform.

He had later tagged Cook’s Twitter account in one other tweet, asking “what’s going on here?”

The world’s most precious agency spent an estimated $131,600 (roughly Rs. 1,07,42,900) on Twitter adverts between November 10 and November 16, down from $220,800 (roughly Rs. 1,80,23,385) between October 16 and October 22, the week earlier than Musk closed the Twitter deal, in accordance with advert measurement agency Pathmatics.

In the primary quarter of 2022, Apple was the highest advertiser on Twitter, spending $48 million (roughly Rs. 390 crore) and accounting for greater than 4 % of whole income for the interval, the Washington Post reported, citing an inside Twitter doc.

Twitter and Apple didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Musk’s newest tweet. Apple has not responded publicly to Musk’s earlier tweets.

Among the listing of grievances tweeted by Musk on Monday was the as much as 30 % charge Apple fees software program builders for in-app purchases, with Musk posting a meme suggesting he was keen to “go to war” with Apple moderately than paying the fee.

The self-described free speech absolutist, whose firm has prior to now few days reinstated a number of Twitter accounts together with that of former US President Donald Trump, has blamed activist teams for pressuring advertisers.

Ben Bajarin, the pinnacle of client applied sciences at analysis agency Creative Strategies, beforehand said that Musk could have been studying an excessive amount of into an everyday course of Apple goes via in-app evaluations.

“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 mentioned.

“Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so,” the billionaire CEO of Twitter and Tesla mentioned in a tweet.

On Monday, Musk had accused Apple of threatening to dam Twitter from its app retailer with out saying why in a sequence of tweets that additionally mentioned it had stopped promoting on the social media platform.

He had later tagged Cook’s Twitter account in one other tweet, asking “what’s going on here?”

Twitter and Apple didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon Musk’s newest tweet. Apple has not responded publicly to Musk’s earlier tweets.

Among the listing of grievances tweeted by Musk on Monday was the as much as 30 % charge Apple fees software program builders for in-app purchases, with Musk posting a meme suggesting he was keen to “go to war” with Apple moderately than paying the fee.

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