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Elon Musk on Saturday thanked advertisers for returning to Twitter after multiple reports hit hard–Big names like Apple and Amazon are resuming advertising.
“A note to thank advertisers for coming back to Twitter,” Musk tweeted, but didn’t elaborate.
The tweet followed a report from the tech outlet platformer that Amazon plans to resume advertising on Twitter in the near future, spending $100 million a year on the platform.
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Amazon is one of many companies to remove advertising from its social media platforms after being acquired by Musk for $44 billion in late October. Many of those companies have since returned. Amazon will be one of these companies when certain security measures are put in place.
Also in a two-hour Twitter Spaces on Saturday, Musk said that the platform’s largest advertiser, Apple, has “completely restarted” advertising on the Twitter social network.
In this photo illustration, an image of Elon Musk is displayed on a computer screen and the twitter logo on a mobile phone on October 6, 2022 in Ankara, Turkey. (Muhammad Selim Korkutata/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
The news followed Musk’s allegations last week that Apple had “almost” stopped advertising on Twitter and threatened to “withhold” the social media platform from its app stores.
Neither Amazon nor Apple has publicly responded to these reports.
Musk, who describes himself as a “free speech absolutist,” has tried to assure advertisers that the platform won’t become a “free-for-all hell,” but advertisers don’t want their content It raises concerns about how it will be moderated.
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FOX Business has reached out to Amazon and Apple for comment.
Daniella Genovese and Anders Hagstrom of FOX Business contributed to this report.