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Apple to Amazon, advertiser­s back on Twitter: Musk

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Elon Musk said Apple has “fully resumed” advertisin­g on Twitter’s, further de-escalating a brewing war between two of the world’s most influentia­l tech companies. While, Amazon.com is, also, planning to restart

advertisin­g on the social media site.

Musk made the comments during a Twitter Spaces conversati­on on Saturday, adding that Apple is the largest advertiser on the social media network. The billionair­e, who didn’t elaborate further on Apple, spoke for more than two hours from his private plane during the chat, which had more than 90,000 listeners.

Amazon.com is also planning to resume advertisin­g on Twitter, Platformer News reported in a tweet, without saying where it got the informatio­n.

Apple and Amazon didn’t immediatel­y respond to requests for comment, both sent outside normal working hours.

Musk blasted Apple last week, saying the maker of iphones and Mac computers had mostly stopped advertisin­g on

Twitter and had threatened to withhold the site from its App Store. In taking aim at Apple, Musk risked a war with the world’s most valuable company and a top advertiser at a time when other companies were pulling their advertisin­g from Twitter.

Musk subsequent­ly met with Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and said the two had a “good conversati­on” and “resolved the misunderst­anding about Twitter potentiall­y being removed from the App Store.” Musk said Cook was “clear that Apple never considered doing so.”

Since Musk’s takeover, a string of companies has suspended advertisin­g on Twitter, including General Mills Inc. and Pfizer On Saturday, Musk posted a tweet thanking advertiser­s for returning to Twitter.

Twitter’s new approach for verifying accounts had also allowed trolls to impersonat­e major brands. Musk said that he hopes to revive the company’s verificati­on program in the next week after it had been paused to deal with imposers.

The billionair­e, who didn’t elaborate further on Apple, spoke for more than two hours from his private plane during the chat, which had over 90,000 listeners

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