Elon Musk has accused Apple of threatening to remove Twitter from its App Store amid growing tensions between the two companies.
The billionaire entrepreneur, who last month purchased the social media spam site for $44 billion, also claimed that Apple had 'mostly stopped advertising on Twitter'.
A number of firms have halted promotion on the site over concerns about Musk's content moderation plans.
The world's richest man said he was in the dark about why Apple had allegedly threatened to remove Twitter from its App Store.
Elon Musk has alluded to making an 'alternative phone' if his social network is permanently banned from both the Apple and Google app stores
The new Twitter CEO claims that Apple has 'threatened to withhold Twitter' from the App Store, but that he has been left in the dark as to why that is