Musk criticized the 30% commission in the AppStore, then saying that Apple threatened him to remove Twitter from its app store. He asked the head of the corporation, “What’s going on?”
Apple has threatened to remove Twitter from its AppStore, entrepreneur Elon Musk said. He indicated that the company did not explain the reason.
Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but won’t tell us why
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Musk said Apple also suspended nearly all ads on Twitter, asking if it was doing so against free speech. He turned to Apple CEO Tim Cook with the words “what’s going on?” and published a meme saying that a businessman would rather agree to a war with a corporation than a commission.
The entrepreneur also drew attention in several tweets to the fact that Apple charges a 30% commission on all payments in the AppStore.
Did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their App Store? https://t.co/LGkPZ4EYcz
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
The Financial Times wrote about Twitter’s problems with advertisers, its industry sources said that after the mass layoffs of employees of the social network, many large advertisers encountered problems and decided to suspend spending on Twitter. They could not launch new advertising campaigns and track the effectiveness of old ones. A top manager from one of the largest advertising agencies told the newspaper that the situation was unique: “The turmoil, the damage – nothing like this has ever happened before. Never”. Another source said that Musk personally called advertisers, urging them not to cut investments.
According to numerous current and former employees, Twitter’s workforce looks to be leaving in large numbers after rejecting Elon Musk’s demands to stay with the firm.
Apple should publish all censorship actions it has taken that affect its customers
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Some Twitter employees appeared to publicly declare they had decided to leave the company as the time for responding to Elon Musk’s ultimatum to commit to working in a “very hardcore” manner at the company approached. On Thursday afternoon, Twitter employees started using the salute emoji, which has come to represent someone leaving the organization. One worker at Twitter claimed in a tweet that choosing to work there was “one of the simplest decisions ever made.” Today’s departure decision was totally the reverse.
At the same time, according to Musk, the number of time spent by users on Twitter is growing, the dynamics of the growth of new registrations is growing. He predicted that in a year and a half the number of social network users per month would reach a billion.
Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, also criticized the Apple commission; he called the corporation a monopolist. “I hope that regulators in the EU, India and other countries will start to take action before Apple destroys more dreams and crushes more entrepreneurs with a tax that is higher than any VAT collected by the state,” he stressed.
