Musk feuds with Apple over Twitter advertising

Elon Musk has said Apple has halted astir of its advertizing connected Twitter and accused the institution of threatening to region the level from its app store.

The feud comes arsenic galore companies person halted spending connected Twitter amid concerns astir Mr Musk's contented moderation plans for the site.

Apple has been contacted by the BBC for comment.

Mr Musk has said Twitter has seen a "massive" driblet successful revenue, blaming activists for pressuring advertisers.

In a bid of Tweets connected Monday, helium accused Apple of "censorship" and criticised its policies, including the complaint it levies connected purchases made connected its app store.

"Apple has mostly stopped advertizing connected Twitter. Do they hatred escaped code successful America?" helium said.

He appealed straight to Apple's CEO - asking "What's going connected present @tim_cook?"

The proprietor of the societal media level besides claimed Apple had threatened to withhold Twitter from its App Store, but did not accidental why.

Mr Musk has said helium wants to marque wealth for Twitter by turning it into a paid subscription work but for present the immense bulk of Twitter's gross comes from advertising.

Companies including Cheerios shaper General Mills and Volkswagen are among the firms that person halted their spending successful caller weeks.

Media Matters, a watchdog site, reported past week that fractional of Twitter's apical advertisers had pulled their advertizing connected Twitter aft concerns astir the absorption of Twitter.