Twitter is an important company with a wildly important app on Apple’s platform — it is a dead certainty that the two companies had a relationship prior to Elon’s arrival. I know this because I’ve asked Twitter’s former head of product about it on Decoder, and he told me they weren’t in the business of skirting platform rules. Whatever communication Elon is claiming Apple sent about Twitter on the App Store was probably part of the regular flow... but Elon fired everyone who knows that. Whoops.