I don't get it, I know maybe Facebook may be a competition for Apple but why integrate twitter into iOS 5 and not Facebook or other social media? Theres way more people who take pictures and want to put them on than twitter or do other stuff on Facebook more...did they pick twitter because its a less of a competition and a a lot smaller company so they can have the upper hand? whats your thoughts?
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iOS 5 twitter instead of Facebook?
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It looks like it's cos facebook said no, like they did to Ping. It looks like there may be coding in iOS 5 for Facebook, in contacts, Twitter has it's own entry, so does Facebook, that's enough indication for me, along with Ping that Facebook is to blame for this.
I took some pictures today and thought maybe if i went into the picture album into my iPhone i could have the option to upload it straight to Facebook. I think it'll be a lot easier and Facebook is probably the most used social media than myspace or twitter.
Like I said, Facebook has to allow Apple to do it. It sucks as I rarely, if ever, use Twitter. The UI stuff apple has made for iOS's native Twitter uploading looks great.
Hopefully Facebook will give in and agrees. You just have to look at the state of their iPhone app and lack of iPad app to see that Facebook doesn't care about iOS.
From what I've experienced with both of the social networks being discussed, Twitter seems to be more about "right now" and Facebook is more about "already happened". Facebook is more full featured, and therefore it makes more sense to upload entire albums to Facebook afterward. Using Twitter to post a pic you took "right then" makes a little more sense (not that it doesn't work with Facebook, I just don't think the emphasis is there). Just look at the way each site's feed works for a further demonstration of that.
I'm sure Facebook would be a nice option as well, but I think I'd use Twitter more for those kinds of sharing anyway.
I'm sure Facebook would be a nice option as well, but I think I'd use Twitter more for those kinds of sharing anyway.
My thoughts exactly. Twitter is more for those quick, "happening right now" moments (tweets) whereas Facebook is a little deeper than that (statuses)
If I were Apple, I'd forget about Facebook and Twitter altogether and work on integrating Google+ instead.
Google+ is not even public yet, and its usage stats are already exploding.
Google+ is not even public yet, and its usage stats are already exploding.
That's your opinion dude. I really dislike twitter and find most twitter posts to be mindless, but again, that's just my opinion.
Didn't Apple buy a map making company about a year ago? I thought that was their plan to exile Google maps from all iOS devices. Apple already offers competing search engines Bing & Yahoo. Since Bing is a Microsoft initiative, I'd love to see Apple get behind Yahoo. I've used Yahoo mail long before I got a Google mail account.
I didn't understand either because I can share my photos from iPhoto on mac to Facebook but can't share a website on my iPhone?
Twitter is much more fast paced than Facebook (as said by DirtySocks). It all depends on who you follow, think about being near a fire and sending your pics to your local news station who is on Twitter. Pretty nice right?
Google+ and Facebook are competitors, Twitter has it's own league. They're two different types of social media, and Twitter is much more appealing.
Unless you're following a bunch of tweens who tweet about how "they just woke up with a hangover".
It all depends on who you follow.
I follow lots of people, no celebs. One of the people i follow is a big developer, and because of Twitter i was able to beta test a very popular app, how cool is that?
