Comments on: iOS 5 Twitter Integration Could Be a Shortcut to Social for Apple

By: Christopher Greenaway

Christopher Greenaway — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:07:29 +0000

Is this a wonderful new feature of Apple’s enhanced user experience?

Or a dark day for our privacy?

http://cgwpublishing.blogspot.com/2011/06/what-do-you-get-when-you-cross-twitter.html

Do you want your iPad telling the world where you are? Or what website you just visited? Do you want it sending emails on your behalf based on a special offer from a store you just visited? Do you want Google maps to show you, in real time, where all your friends are right now?

After all, you might find out something you wish you hadn’t. Like one of your friends is round your house, right now. And they’re not playing Angry Birds.

By: DougS

DougS — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:57:56 +0000

To answer the question as to why no deep integration of Facebook, I would say it is because it would give more power to Facebook and apple does not want to do that especially when rumors persist that Facebook is working on their own phone ala android. Twitter integration into iOS will give twitter an instant boost. I have said all along that Apple should buy Twitter.

By: Dom

Dom — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 08:39:01 +0000

The really compelling thing, which no one seems to have suggested yet, is that every Twitter user could instantly become an iCloud subscriber. Immediate media domination.

By: Ruth Hussey

Ruth Hussey — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:31:33 +0000

iTwitter – that may work for Apple Inc.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:18:30 +0000

I still can’t understand the point of Twitter. If this rumor is true, maybe Steve Jobs will get up on stage next week and explain it.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:51:00 +0000

How is this different than what Android already does with Facebook and Twitter?

By: Andrew Macdonald

Andrew Macdonald — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:25:46 +0000

This would be fantastic, but the way I see it, unless they are also integrating Facebook on a system-wide level, whats the point in adding Twitter?

Yes Twitter is mighty popular, and has millions of users, but in terms of purely the userbase, Facebook has sooo many more.

Twitter integration on the iPhone might turn out to be an amazing feature – who knows what Apple has on their minds, but I think Facebook should be as equally, if not MORE important, to Apple.

P.S. – Im not some guy who dislikes Twitter, I use it every day with 6,000 followers, so it’s a massive part of my daily routine, but I just think Facebook is just as important as Twitter is.

By: Michael Murdock

Michael Murdock — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:35:08 +0000

Would be a smart move on their part. Social is NOT going away, why not embrace it, integrate it and improve on the interaction aspects of it quicker than the rest of the field.