Elon Musk teases a Twitter phone

November 28, 2022

Elon Musk on Monday tweeted that Apple isn't advertising very much on the new Twitter under his management -- and that the company may boot the Twitter app from the App Store.

Reasons weren't given, but it's likely that Apple is frowning on the new "free speech" Twitter that Musk is proposing that downplays moderation. Apple booted the Parler app over concerns about its content-moderation practices (but later let it back in).

In response, Musk is floating the idea of building his own smartphone, but this path is fraught: Remember the Facebook phone? What about Amazon's Fire Phone?

If Apple does remove Twitter from the App Store, it'll be bad news for Musk, but you can essentially roll your own Twitter app by opening Twitter in Safari and hitting "Add to Home Screen" in the share sheet.

Twitter will continue to function much the same, and you'll get a Twitter icon on your iPhone or iPad Home screen.

-- Leander Kahney, EIC.

Elon Musk says he’ll release a phone that competes with iPhone and Android if he has to. The owner of Twitter might be forced to make a handset if Apple and Google ban the social network from their software stores. Such a ban is possible, as both companies have policies that block apps that spread hate speech or calls for violence.

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"Apple's problem has been a lack of execution; a lack of management. It's just the basic stuff! I think the basics are getting put in place, and that's filtering down through this organization, and I think the results are starting to happen already." - Steve Jobs, WWDC, 1997.

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