Apple Tells Elon To Get Twitter’s Shit Together Or They’re Pulling It From The AppStore.

His fans are saying, “oh, he’ll just make a phone and bankrupt Apple.”

I can’t. 😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠️☠️☠️

Gwyneth really needs to get a handle on Lil’ Goop, she’s out of control.

C'mon Tim! Stick it to Eat-One!

Delete his app if he allows seditious claptrap and racist comments to go unfiltered!

Answer his saber-rattling with a cut-and-dry, "If Twitter persists, then this will happen. Ball's in your court, Eat-One"

It'll get pulled, I'm sure of it. You can't get news on Twitter anymore; not only does actual news never trend, but doing a search on a current news story doesn't get you any hits from actual journalists. I was searching for info on the tornadoes that touched down in the Southern US this morning and got porn, people talking about their dreams, old tweets, and finally on the 12th hit some guy named Shamburger with the NWS.

They're promoting hate speech and suppressing actual news, and promoting a lot of crypto stuff as well, the app is going to get yanked ASAP.

It's not as simple as that. Musk has the money to start his own phone company and screw all of us over even more.

I'm not watching some bearded nobody talk for 10 minutes, r5. Do you have a link to anything legitimate that would explain how Musk's own phone company would "screw all of us over"?

So Elon is going to spend billions to develop his own line of phones and app store, AND then convince companies and organizations all over the world to create a version of their app for his phone platform?

This is insane, when is the board at Tesla going to say enough? He’s squandering Tesla’s money and reputation, because the backlash against the cars is coming.

Microsoft tried competing with Android and Apple phones, and had a full ecosystem and developers and huge name recognition. They still failed, despite spending billions. The idea that Musk could do so, and do it in time to save Twitter is ridiculous. If Apple pulls the app (and Google may follow suit), he's immediately out of time. No one will take the risk to advertise with him.

Apple fucked over FORTNITE which generated billions more $$$ than Twitter ever dreamed of. Apple would destroy Twitter (and Musk) without blinking.

This is what happens when you surround yourself with yes-men.

For the life of me, I can't understand why he threw away billions of dollars to get the admiration of a bunch of neckbeards.

Only a total loser would buy a Tesla. It is like buying a car from Hitler at this point. Way better and more stylish EVs on the market too.

R5, I subscribe to Beau on Youtube, but good grief, he takes forever to get to the point on anything. I almost always have to play his videos at 2X speed. He's so sloth-like in the way he speaks and keeps pausing, it drives me batty. It's so arduous for him to make even the most basic statement about anything.

I highly doubt Musk will be successful in launching his own line of phones and his own app store. Amazon couldn't even pull this off several years ago.

[quote]For the life of me, I can't understand why he threw away billions of dollars to get the admiration of a bunch of neckbeards.

Because he is an egomaniac and wants to rule the world.

The key word here is "claims." There is no evidence that Apple has told Twitter this.

Much like conservatives constantly claiming they're being "silenced," while crying about it nightly to millions on Fox News.

He’s trying to go to war against Apple… just because.

It would only be a war in Elon’s mind. Apple couldn’t care less about Elon Musk. They’ve got so much new, cool shit they’re working on right now—the absolute last thing Tim Cook cares about is the friggin Twitter app.

Dear God, I don't believe in you for one second, but if in the remotest of chances you're real, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET APPLE BOOT TWITTER, AND THE SOONER THE BETTER!!

This is basically the same story as two days ago. Thought it was a new development.

I have an iPhone. I have never cared to get into one of those fights about which phone is better. But I suddenly want Apple to join THIS fight and WIN IT.

These fucking companies and CEOs need to stay in their own lanes. Tesla should stick to building cars, and Apple should stick to making phones. We don’t need an Apple Car, and we don’t need a Tesla Phone. And Twitter should just fucking disappear.

Apple, I know a car company you could buy...

Elon isn’t buying anything more. He’s effectively broke. Now Apple on the other hand could easily buy both Twitter AND Tesla with their pocket change. Apple has been wanting to make a car for awhile now….

He does not want to play this game with the most powerful tech and richest company (current valuation this morning 2.3 TRILLION) in the world.

Tell your baby mamas to get back on the stroll, your capital is dried up.

Both Apple and Google expressed concerns about Twitter content moderation well before Musk bought it. Since Musk's acquisition the team responsible for deleting child porn is now one person. If Apple or Google find increasing amounts of CP going unmoderated, you bet they will pull the app from their stores. That was why Apple yanked the Tumblr app, leading Tumblr to ban all adult content. They were allowing CP to go unmoderated, and Apple said enough.

This is just another example of why this was a stupid buy on Musk's part. An enormous part of managing a social media network is weeding out the sick shit that people put up. Gutting the staff that actually does that work was idiotic.

I'm not so sure Apple wants to piss off their Twitter addicts but who knows?

Can anyone explain to me why someone would use a public forum like Twitter for CP? I thought all that stuff was only on the dark web.

[quote]Apple has been wanting to make a car for awhile now….

Apple has been trying to build a car since at least 2008. They’ve tried unsuccessfully to partner with real car companies including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Volkswagen, Hyundai, Kia, and Toyota. And yet the Apple Car has gone nowhere.

Bottom line: Apple doesn’t know anything about building cars or it would have happened by now. If they try to buy Tesla, they’ll ruin the company. Just like Elon Musk knows nothing about the social media industry and has ruined Twitter.

[quote]Only a total loser would buy a Tesla. It is like buying a car from Hitler at this point.

LOL. “Hitler”

[quote]Elon isn’t buying anything more. He’s effectively broke. Now Apple on the other hand could easily buy both Twitter AND Tesla with their pocket change.

NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!’

I don’t want him to make any more money.

I want him to lose the money he has!!!!!

The ONLY reason people give this schmuck attention is because if his money.

Love the dummies who think Elon Musk can just summon up a hit smartphone out of nowhere.

Twitter addict, here. In withdrawal. Fiending to tweet.

Is Twitter not working today, or something?

I’m still waiting for my account to be reinstated. I thought he was going to do some kind of “amnesty for all” sweeping move. I NEED to get back to my hate-criming on there!

Not going back. But I am twitchy to Tweet.

[QUOTE] These fucking companies and CEOs need to stay in their own lanes. Tesla should stick to building cars, and Apple should stick to making phones. We don’t need an Apple Car, and we don’t need a Tesla Phone. And Twitter should just fucking disappear.

In 2007 were you saying that Apple needs to stick to computers and not phones, R20? Should they have stayed away from watches? Apple has a proven track record of venturing into new industries and changing the way we look at them. Don’t lump them in with Elon.

EU has told Musk they will ban Twitter entirely if he doesn’t immediately conform to strict guidelines on content mediation.

lol. ☠️☠️🤡

Huawei phones automatically deleting videos of China's recent COVID-19 protests.

I've said here on the datalounge before and I'll say it again-

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again.

I love that Republicans want to nationalize Apple but not, i dunno, health care.

He’s an ugly motherfucker. I wish lame ass DL would stop posting about him.

Tesla is probably closer to the end of its useful life than people realize. Teslas catch on fire spontaneously. Now, large, traditional car companies are doing electric cars and they will probably all have better, cheaper cars than Teslas within a year or two that don’t catch on fire.

When Tesla started, they were really the only game in town. Now they aren’t. People aren’t going to buy fiery inferno cars when they can buy an electric Toyota, a brand known for reliability.

A few millionaires going through mid-life crises might want a Tesla, everybody else is going to want a family car that doesn’t lock the baby inside and drive it into a tree, and then burst into flames.

Now that he’s remade his image into an unlikable Lex Luthor instead of a cutting edge, eccentric Tony Stark, watch ordinary, not rich people buy a staid, reliable family electric car by one of the tried and true auto manufacturers and pass temperamental Teslas by.

If he was smart, he’d sell it to a larger company for a ton of money and let them either clean it up or discard it. In a year, it will be like buying a Pinto. He’s ruined his reputation and made Teslas uncool.

If Musk turns twitter into a hate site - and that's what's beginning to happen - the exodus of advertisers and users will be unstoppable.

The fanbois who vociferously defend him are the same people who plopped several thousand dollars in cryptocurrency on badly drawn, bitmap-quality images of monkeys and pirates thinking that one day they will be worth more than Mona Lisa. Sure, I'll take their YouTube musings seriously.

It's like buying a car from Hitler. Who needs it?!

R41, I’ve read he lost 50 of his biggest advertisers, and that was last week. Who knows by now.

I also read that some former advertisers had old advertisements from months ago suddenly pop up on the site without their permission. Maybe he thinks he can force them to pay for stuff they didn’t agree to?

Those ads will often be out of date so that's not good for them.

R25 I’m sure Apple isn’t concerned about Twitter “addicts”. Especially if Twitter is starting to circle the drain.

Does this guy’s face ONLY come always in this one “I’m in the middle of a bowel movement!” mode?!!

[quote]If he was smart, he’d sell it to a larger company for a ton of money and let them either clean it up or discard it. In a year, it will be like buying a Pinto. He’s ruined his reputation and made Teslas uncool.

I think one of the luxury manufacturers, maybe BMW, will make a big offer for Tesla... buy it out and then kill off the brand to eliminate a direct competitor.

Musk tweeted tonight that he had spoken to Tim Cook and that Apple had never planned to pull Twitter's app from their store. So someone doesn't have the story right.

Yeah, I tend to take comments by someone in the middle of a manic episode and mainlining on Jolt Cola mixed with Adderall at face value.

Well said R40.

If Apple really has it in for him, I’m sure they’re smart enough to recall the old adage about never interrupting your enemy when he’s making a mistake.

I want him to lose this one big-time but he may have to do it without Apple’s help. I’m betting he can!

I agree, good post, r40. I particularly like the Lex Luther/Tony Stark comparison.

R48, I agree. Some car manufacturer is probably waiting for the stock to hit rock bottom and then they’ll buy it and retire the name, or maybe bring it back years from now on a completely different sports car, at best. “The new, improved Tesla II.”

It would be smart to do this and then produce a sporty, dad in mid-life crisis electric car with no competition from Tesla. I hope that’s what happens. .

So Musk was full of shit as usual.

I wonder what the real story is. If Musk just sacked all the people that delete CP, and CP continues on the site and gets even worse, what else can Apple and its advertisers do but drop it?

Just because he says it’s not going to happen doesn’t mean it’s not true. He doesn’t speak for Apple. They were probably trying to keep it quiet and give him one last chance, and he just blabbed it.

At best, Apple may have given him a final warning, he stupidly put it out there for all to hear, then some lawyer or somebody said, “for God’s sake Elon, if you even say this out loud, it’s going to crash Tesla. You have to take it back.” He was a fool to tie the fates of Tesla and Twitter together.

Why would it crash Tesla? They are separate companies. In fact, Tesla probably wishes that Elon would just give up on Twitter and go back to focusing on them.

R57, the stock price for one. Musk fucking up Twitter has revealed him to be a horrible manager/business person, hence the big drop in the Tesla stock price.

These Twitter threads attract a lot of loony women.

I thought he used some of his Tesla stock to fund the Twitter purchase.

Musk has made it clear he is a proud bully thirsting for power. I sense small size meat.

He really does need to invest in lithium. He's really manic right now and inventing conspiracies all over the place.

Mania is also related to horrific profligacy. Does spending $44 billion on a company he's running into the ground count?

I hope Apple smiles to his face and says - don’t worry! Then turns around and says - nah, we good - and unceremoniously dumps Twitter from its app store.

This is probably what really happened: Apple sends apps like Twitter boilerplate emails warning them to clean up their content moderation practices or risk being booted from the App Store.

Musk made a huge public campaign against Apple because of that. Tim Cook felt obliged to placate him for fear of being smeared as 'the government told Apple to do that!'

It's disgusting behavior by Musk.

Ever since he git the hair transplant he thinks he's all that! Well, that and being the wealthiest human being in the history of creation. Just sayin...

[QUOTE] It's disgusting behavior by Musk.

I’m more disgusted by Tim Cook. Shame on him.

Studying this outrageous series of events, one will see the reason why Musk bought Twitter in the first place. He must feel untouchable now.

R64. It's business on Musk's part. But Apple shouldn't cave to that.

That's bad business on Cook's part. Other companies might think they can launch campaigns of their own to circumvent content policies.

He might be doing damage to Apple's brand and that's irresponsible.

Shouldn't you be incel fanbois be in a basement somewhere obsessing over unattainable hookers on Pornhub and buying second hat NFTs of monkeys with funny hats?

R66, why should Apple suffer the consequences of Musk’s horrible mismanagement? This has nothing to do with free speech btw, CP is not free speech.

The organization Media Matters for America, which is a watchdog for right-wing media and hate speech has had some accounts banned from Twitter today for bullshit reasons. I can't stand that Tim Cook is even meeting with Elon who is an honest-to-god fucking Nazi. The site is going full-Nazi. Nobody should be advertising there.

Wait, people still believe a word Musk says or posts on Twitter? His own ex-wife fact checked him when he claimed that his newborn died in his arms.

Musk claiming he had a conversation with Cook is like Trump claiming he had a great conversation with Putin, and it worked out well in his favor.

Elmo's about to get bitch-slapped by the EU commission on internet privacy issues.

I'm sure if Twitter gets blocked in the EU they'll get by just fine.

*snort*

^Link to above

Don't fuck with Miss Tim Apple! 🍎

Musk's Twitter will be used as a business case study for decades on how to light $44 billion on fire.

R66 - so Apple should be obliged to support an app that’s besieged by fake news, racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Jew sentiment, child porn, etc., because why?

Suck it, bitches!!!

"Suck it, bitches!!! "

And you Elmo fan boys do, every fucking day 🙄

R57 - Tesla is still associated directly with Musk. That stock has tanked dramatically due to his idiotic antics. It's infuriating because I want to sell all my shares, but I need to wait until I make up some of the losses first. I'd like to at least break even from my initial investment. Right now, Tesla stock is the huge, stinky turd in my portfolio punchbowl.

the sad thing is that people got their news from twitter.

:(

As opposed to getting the news from the Santa Monica Observer. Online

Twitter, FTX. Its a banner year for con artists.

R76: You can't say this enough. And everyone should repeat it for years to come.

Now Musk has backpedaled on Twitter and admitted Apple never actually threatened to remove his app from their store.

Elon has suspended Kanye's account for 'incitement to violence' (Kanye tweeted a Judaism Star of David with a swastika in it).

So much for 'freedom of speech'. /s

Woopsy!

Wow, so Kanye after only a few days of being back on Twitter has been re-suspended by the great fighter for "free speech", Elmo?

Something tells me Tim Cook's little chat with Elmo was more a shape up or ship out warning 🤔. By the time he's through everyone is going to hate Muskrat

My favorite Twitter reply... 😂

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I take comfort in the fact that that Elon has a permanently itchy butthole.

R87, Musk is trying to protect Trump and the Right since they aligned themselves with Kanye. Every time he opens his mouth, it hurts them.

R76 There’s child porn on Twitter? Really? Wouldn’t this be in the news constantly if it were true?

And transphobia? Who cares?

R90, Twitter had a department of employees who looked for child porn specifically and removed it. They were specially trained, knew all the languages and countries’ laws about CP and would act according to the laws in that country. Elon fired the vast majority of them. In the Asian Pacific region, for example, it’s said he fired the entire staff but one person. You don’t have to be a genius to know there’s a lot of people in that region who may try to post CP.

Recently, people on Twitter have stated they’re getting unsolicited generalized porn on their feed when they have never looked at it and it’s not in their algorithm. A lot of the systems on Twitter are now not being managed by a human being, and the systems are breaking down. There have been numerous complaints that tags don’t work in the search bar for some people. These things would be easily repaired if there was a human available to fix them, but Elon fired them all.

A lot of people have also complained that their algorithm seems to have disappeared, and they’re getting trending items that are irrelevant to them, for example random sports scores from across the country when they have no interest in sports, etc. It’s a sign the system is not being maintained.

R91 - R90 knows that, and knows the risk is seeing an increase now. He’s just a twat who probably faps to pictures of prepubescent boys.

Same R32 I was permanently suspended on two accounts for “hate speech” when all I did was point out MAGA bullshit and hypocrisy! IT’s unfathomable to me who they allow on and who they kick off. They refuse to allow me to make my argument as to why my tweet wasn’t violent or hate filled (I assure you it wasn’t, it was mild compared to what you see on the daily) now Elon Musk is playing “Twitter police” as if he knows what’s best when he allows the most hate filled scumbags back on. I miss the interactions and the immediate news but it’s seemingly changing by the day with how he runs it almost into the ground on purpose. I hate that pasty faced, blubbery baby factory!

When an oligarch (whoever it may be) buys a social media platform & turns it into to some marketplace for hate speech, antisemitism, porn and actively invites traitors to spew their craziness, it's good to know there are at least some adults at the wheel who will shut it down. Granted, Apple has their own issues & I'm not so sure that destroying twitter wasn't Musk's goal all along, but whatever the case, in a world where we can't seem to get rid of Trump, Alex Jones & Kanye, it's good to know there are at least some controls still in place.

I'm sure that Apple thinks this is peachy.

"@ashtonpittman

After suspending Kanye West for antisemitism, @ElonMusk has restored the account of Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, the internet's largest neo-Nazi website."

Dear Elon,

there are better ways to play Whack-a-mole than buy Twitter, unblock all the Nazi accounts, and then block them again when they use Twitter to post racist shit.

My apologies, it's Whac-A-Mole

[quote] Elon Musk

@elonmusk Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so. 7:05 AM · Dec 1, 2022

[quote]

Elon Musk

@elonmusk · Dec 1 Thanks @tim_cook for taking me around Apple’s beautiful HQ

So did they have a list as to who to reinstate? They certainly didn’t let everyone back on, did they?

[quote]You can't get news on Twitter anymore; not only does actual news never trend, but doing a search on a current news story doesn't get you any hits from actual journalists.

They're all over on Post and Mastadon now. I just got my invite for Post Beta yesterday. There was a waiting list of 200,000+ people.

More reason to get a galaxy. Controlling freedom of speech is oppressive and regressive. And I don't even use Twitter.

[quote]Recently, people on Twitter have stated they’re getting unsolicited generalized porn on their feed when they have never looked at it and it’s not in their algorithm.

My DMs are now an endless scroll of busty women I've never seen before, and they don't delete.

Apple fully resumes advertising on Twitter, and they’re now the biggest ad spender on the platform.

I propose a three-part plan:

1. Poison Elon

2. Ensure that his hospital room is on the top floor

3. Push him out the window

I wonder what Elon had to give up for that? We know Apple is also working on an electric car. No way Apple didn’t walk away with something big.

Just canceled my Apple TV

R107 Sure you did.

Do it. Stop saber rattling and just fucking pull the goddamned app already.

I hope you posted that from your android phone R107.

Oopsie, Twitter uses google ads.

Looks like it's this for you...

Broken clock is right twice a day.

R104. Elon says a lot of things. He was saying that Apple was considering pulling the app, now they apparently were never considering it at all.

Though I'm sure they're now thinking about it NOW.

He says they're the biggest advertiser. Is that because there are so few advertisers left and they got a real cheap rate?

Because that's my bet.

Why is Musk such a jerk?

Because nobody stands up to him, R113. Including Tim Cook.

^ I can’t wait for his Kanye Nazi phase. That’ll be fun.

Apple’s “car” is a big failure. Now to be delayed at least 2 additional years.

Probably except for the part that says he can’t be President, R11.

Apologies R11, I meant R111.

@r116, Yeah, well, I'm sure the Ford and Honda phones would be big failures as well. Maybe car companies should stick to making cars, phone companies should stick to making phones and Elon Musk should stick it up his ass

I love it when one China-owned company starts fighting with another China-owned company in the U.S.

Thank God for gay men in high places!