iOS 5 to Include Twitter Integration for Photos?

I have a feeling that iOS 5 is going to beat WebOS in the few areas that it beats iOS 4 (notifications being the biggest one).

Cougarcat said:

Actually, he's implying exactly that. This is exactly how he "reveals" things that he knows.

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Yeah, the only time he ever flat out says anything is if it is blatant speculation on his part (such as iPad 2HD in September) or if he thinks it is wrong (such as iPhone at WWDC 2011).

God how i hate all this social BS. Like there are no other pressing matters to attend.

Meh, really struggle to see the big point in it, and then again Twitter is almost non-excistent where I'm from. Rather see something similar with FB, Twitter is just to primitive and low-tech, I mean, with e-mails in cellphones I thought we were finally done with SMS

A few ideas of what Gruber may be eluding to.

1) Twitter feed as screen saver / home screen?
2) Game Centre integration?
3) VoIP / Facetime Contacts from twitter? (unlikely)

Žalgiris said:

God how i hate all this social BS. Like there are no other pressing matters to attend.

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Er. Okay. I agree that most Twitter traffic the world could probably live without. But we are social animals. We need some kind of connect to be functional. I don't see how this is a bad thing (I mean, it is a phone, communicating should be it's main purpose).

Tbh, there were similar rumours for iOS4 but then said it would be tightly integrated with Facebook. Think the Apple+FB love story ended, when talks over Ping fell apart and it got scrapped for iOS as well.

Twitter is garbage, but probably the future

I remember seeing "Share to Twitter" on my HTC Desire over a year ago. I didn't use it then and I wouldn't use this either.

I think Twitter system-wide could mean lots of different things: obviously makes lots of sense in Safari, and perhaps we could even get a "tweet" option in the popup list along side copy and paste?

What I really hope this means is we get an API for developers so that users don't have to keep re-authenticating with Twitter (and Facebook too?) for each app. Seems like it would be better for users and one less thing app developers have to deal with.

Frisco said:

Twitter is garbage, but probably the future

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It will be replaced eventually. Just like how Twitter mostly replaced internet message boards (like this).

Am I the only one who simply couldn't give a toss about Twitter?

Žalgiris said:

God how i hate all this social BS. Like there are no other pressing matters to attend.

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...said a man on a social message board.

**** Twitter.

And of course Gruber loves it, he's got a real hard-on for pointless tweets from insignificant little birds on the interwebs, but I wish Apple would keep that crap out of my OS. Facebook, too.

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I think all Gruber was hinting at is that system level twitter integration will probably solve the nasty OAuth issues that twitter client developers are soon going to be dealing with.

Small White Car said:

...said a man on a social message board.

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You are so reaching here and you know it very well.

Žalgiris;12660762 said:

You are so reaching here and you know it very well.

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What you said, what I said, and what you said are all the exact same thing as tweets.

(They'd all fit within Twitter's character limit too!)

Cougarcat said:

Actually, he's implying exactly that. This is exactly how he "reveals" things that he knows.

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Really? I have been following the guy for long. Never felt that.

But thanks for the tip; I'll keep that in mind.

Small White Car said:

What you said, what I said, and what you said are all the exact same thing as tweets.

(They'd all fit within Twitter's character limit too!)

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So you are really going to play this game huh.

johneaston said:

Am I the only one who simply couldn't give a toss about Twitter?

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I have a twitter account but I have it private and use it to only talk to a few people. It is better than email because conversations are easier to follow between multiple parties without you losing context. And it is better than IM or chat rooms because it has some permanence/you can be offline. And I absolutely do not trust Facebook (I have an account because you need to these days since it is unfortunately used to organize events).

Basically, the thing I dislike the most about Twitter is how it feels like you're shouting everything at any random person on the street.

Žalgiris;12660784 said:

So you are really going to play this game huh.

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Just curious, do you take issue with the whole personality cult that Twitter encourages or something else?

And if the phone providers have their way, sending a tweet will count as a text message. All of the providers are colluding to fix prices. Thieves!

NAG said:

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Basically, the thing I dislike the most about Twitter is how it feels like you're shouting everything at any random person on the street.

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Haha, this made my day. It´s the excact same feeling i have about it, but I´ve never been able to explain it so simple and well!

NAG said:

Just curious, do you take issue with the whole personality cult that Twitter encourages or something else?

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For the most part. I still consider twitter being ok, but facebbok i hate with passion for real.

Žalgiris said:

For the most part. I still consider twitter being ok, but facebbok i hate with passion for real.

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Funny, I am the complete opposite. Most of the pro's (in my field) I follow just have auto-updating spambots posting constant updates. That and every time I get @ replies from someone "famous" I just end up with 20 more spam tweets I have to manually block.

Facebook on the other hand allows me to keep regular contact with friends, family and colleagues all over the globe.

I also vote to hell with adding twitter/social media stuff get to work on stealing webOS's notification system already. The current system needs to go away.

Žalgiris;12660833 said:

For the most part. I still consider twitter being ok, but facebbok i hate with passion for real.

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I'm with you on that one. Twitter at least has a private mode (even though it is a bit glunky) so you don't have to participate in the noise if you don't want to.

Frankly, we badly need an email 2.0. We might as well still be running around using Gopher instead of web browsers.

AppleDroid said:

Funny, I am the complete opposite. Most of the pro's (in my field) I follow just have auto-updating spambots posting constant updates. That and every time I get @ replies from someone "famous" I just end up with 20 more spam tweets I have to manually block.

Facebook on the other hand allows me to keep regular contact with friends, family and colleagues all over the globe.

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Facebook has pretty much the same feature set as Twitter (Facebook copies about every social network so it isn't a surprise). This includes following people who spam their feeds.

The real question should be do you trust Facebook with your personal info.