Apple-Twitter Talks Focused on Product Partnership, More iTunes Integration Likely

[fhall1]

I just can't find any use for twitter!!
Non of my friends or relatives are there!!
Everyone seem to be on facebook.

Ditto.....and even FB seems to be waning. But everyone has to jump on the bandwagon. I have a (last gen) WD HD TV Live Plus and Western Digital couldn't release unbuggy new firmware for it to save their lives. Every new version broke some core feature - but they kept adding crap like FB and Twitter integration - that's why I never upgraded. Who wants to send tweets from a media streaming box that has no keyboard input? But I guess having that stupid bird icon on the cardboard box makes it more marketable.

 

[Schizoid]

I agree @macrumors twitter is useless #ilovemacs #hatetwitter It's for weirdos

 

[shulerg]

I love the irony - you imply that only "ignorant and/or narcissistic people" use social networking but to do this you use social networking (this site), and post a narcissistic message!

Steve

Actually, macrumors is an "online community" centered around the group identity, whereas online "social networking" focuses on the individual and his or her explicit relationships with other users, so no irony at all.

Btw, the discussions here may be indulgent, but we're not getting up and posting what we had for breakfast or asking a million strangers if we should be concerned about what our morning dumps looked like>>> stuff like this accounts for more than half of FB/twitter traffic.

 

[jroadley]

Apple & Twitter

My two favourite things.

 

[jb510]

I'm surprised with all the talk of Apple and twitter I don't see a single hypothesis where this is about extending iMessage? That seems to me where the real potential synergy is...

I'm also always surprised by the number of people that chime in just to say "I hate ____", when it's something easily avoidable if you don't like the thing and sharing the dislike without an explantion is really pointless in the discussion. If you hate twitter, blogging, broccoli, or whatever... Avoid it and go about your day. If you think twitter, blogging or broccoli are somehow bad then people might want to hear why, but just saying you dislike them doesn't add any value to the conversation.

 

[chrimux]

Oh no.

Why Twitter? Its good for nothing but seeing what Celebrities had for lunch. Bring in Facebook integration for iTunes, let it display what I've been listening to, to my friends like Spotify does.

Facebook is even more dumber. Why can't they make 2 product lines? One with all the social crap and a useful one. Or better, ship the sw without all that stuff and sell an extra social edition package to those who want it.

 

[SvenSvenson]

Actually, macrumors is an "online community" centered around the group identity, whereas online "social networking" focuses on the individual and his or her explicit relationships with other users, so no irony at all.

Btw, the discussions here may be indulgent, but we're not getting up and posting what we had for breakfast or asking a million strangers if we should be concerned about what our morning dumps looked like>>> stuff like this accounts for more than half of FB/twitter traffic.

I know, I know - only having a light-hearted dig at you but Alexander was basically saying that he (and others) find Twitter useful (and yes - there's a lot of crap) by forming a group community it and that if you don't like it, just ignore it, which seems reasonable.

I think it's interesting to see where things like Twitter and Facebook will go - at the moment there's seems little real point or value to them, yet you can't imagine them going away, even if you don't like yourself. A lot of people find them invaluable and perhaps this is like the early days of the Internet - people said then it's not anything useful but today we couldn't do without it.

Steve

 

[shulerg]

I know, I know - only having a light-hearted dig at you but Alexander was basically saying that he (and others) find Twitter useful (and yes - there's a lot of crap) by forming a group community it and that if you don't like it, just ignore it, which seems reasonable.

I think it's interesting to see where things like Twitter and Facebook will go - at the moment there's seems little real point or value to them, yet you can't imagine them going away, even if you don't like yourself. A lot of people find them invaluable and perhaps this is like the early days of the Internet - people said then it's not anything useful but today we couldn't do without it.

Steve

Agreed. My prediction right now is that twitter has more potential longevity than FB.