Elon Musk takes on Apple’s power, setting up a clash
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Wasn't it just yesterday that Musk said Twitter will make its own smartphone if Apple and Google kick Twitter out of their app stores? No doubt that will happen "sometime next year" and rack up another huge success for Musk, who knows way more about social media and smartphones than anyone else alive.
This looks like the movie trope strategy of picking a fight with the biggest kid on the first day of school. Also good distraction from actual problems at Twitter, where getting kicked out of the Apple app store hasn't actually happened but failing to make payroll has.
Twitter started more aggressively enforcing the rule after the rollout of paid verification.
There are plenty of people on twitter who make fun of and/or disagree with Musk... including the engineers that publically disagree(d) with him
But it isnt, I would say, conspiratorial or personal, its just galvanized fan boys reporting accounts. And I assume with the diminished staff they are just airing on the side of banning then going through thorough reviews or whatever. Which is still pretty bad.