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More Claims of 'Deep' Twitter Integration in iOS 5

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So snarky. I do have twitter. I understand it's 'beneficial' uses. But every single person I know uses it to blab about their day or spam self promotion. And they get offended if their friends don't follow them. If you really believe in twitter you should be upset with that nonsense too. It's real and it turns a lot of people off. and making it easier to post photos of your day or 4square your location is catering to the narcissuses waay more that timely journalistic update crowd.
 
w00t951 said:
I hope it doesn't get in the way of people like me who don't use Twitter.
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It would be opt-in and configurable, just like almost everything else on an iDevice.

You can turn off push notifications, location services, etc. You don't have to configure e-mail on your iDevice. You don't have to use the calendar. You don't have to take pictures. You can turn off 3G data. Heck, you can put your iDevice in Airplane Mode or use it as a nice flashlight.

You're not forced to use anything on an iDevice.
 
Less bickering about the value of Twitter and more wild speculation about what sort of "deep" integration might entail, please.

Pics (alone) sounds pretty dull, but Pics/Video/Audio/Docs/Maps/Polls/Short-URLs/iCloud/APIs integration could be interesting...
 
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What about facebook?
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This guy's post got like 10 thumbs down, which just means this one will too... but I agree. Nobody uses Twitter, everyone uses Facebook, and since the Facebook app is just aweful, I wouldn't mind having full integration on my phone.
 
Location services duh

They are going to use twitter as the back bone for their find friends location services and what feinds said about places you are near. It's lightweight, compared to Facebook. That's why the chose twitter. Facebook could do this as well but they are seen as a compeditor sine they a building their own fb droid phone.
That's my educated guess to what they are doing.
 
deannnnn said:
This guy's post got like 10 thumbs down, which just means this one will too... but I agree. Nobody uses Twitter, everyone uses Facebook, and since the Facebook app is just aweful, I wouldn't mind having full integration on my phone.
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Wrong.

Twitter is often where news leaks out because people slipped up. It's much more personal than say, email or Facebook. Such as how Peter Hajas candidly mentioned said that he was going to work for a company in CA that has "fruit" in it (tweet later deleted). Or how that one person was live-blogging the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. After that, someone tweeted that bin Laden was dead about 2-3 hours before Obama made his speech, generating a bunch of buzz. Or how the whole world found out that Obama thought Kayne West was a "jackass" for what he did to Taylor Swift (tweet later quickly deleted since it was off the record).

Twitter has also been credited for aiding people during the recent Egyptian Revolution.
 
Twitter also once had a scheduled maintenance time when only certain features would be available for a couple hours. This was during an election I think in the Middle East and that country requested that Twitter change their maintenance time because the government thought it was the best way to spread news.
 
Too many holier-than-thous on this forum. Ridiculous. Being a college student with a college hip hop radio show, I use Twitter all the time to network with artists for appearances on our show and elsewhere in the community. Don't knock it unless you understand its use. Those who are ignorant will always flame and tarnish what they don't know. It's silly. Come on now, act like adults.

With that said, I'd absolutely love for Twitter to be more deeply rooted in iOS 5, with an option to turn it off for those who don't want to use the feature. To deny a feature that'll improve the interface and functionality of a service for those who don't want to use it is foolhardy and everyone on this forum knows that.
 
I hope there is a non-removable Twitter app so that you all learn the value of the service.
 
benhollberg said:
I hope there is a non-removable Twitter app so that you all learn the value of the service.
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well thanks for looking out for the rest of humanity. but we are a versatile race and what you see as value might not be for others. and to be honest, after years of making my living in front of a computer i've grown to dislike them to a degree. Im now enjoying more time away from electronic gizmos than in front of them.

I hope one day you find the value in that :p (take it easy, just messing around...see now if we were face to face i wouldnt have to explain that i was joking. you would intuitively pick up on it. "use the force")
 
Chocolatemilty said:
Too many holier-than-thous on this forum. Ridiculous. Being a college student with a college hip hop radio show, I use Twitter all the time to network with artists for appearances on our show and elsewhere in the community. Don't knock it unless you understand its use. Those who are ignorant will always flame and tarnish what they don't know. It's silly. Come on now, act like adults.

With that said, I'd absolutely love for Twitter to be more deeply rooted in iOS 5, with an option to turn it off for those who don't want to use the feature. To deny a feature that'll improve the interface and functionality of a service for those who don't want to use it is foolhardy and everyone on this forum knows that.
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Look, some of us just don't like Twitter. We don't get on it with it, we don't enjoy how it operates and we don't enjoy its content. I've tried twitter, several time, but I just despise it.

Please explain how twitter integration will improve interface? I don't think iOS is perfect, but I don't understand this statement.
 
I hope it will optional as I don't want to see 'Twitter' almost every few seconds while using my device.
 
caspersoong said:
I hope it will optional as I don't want to see 'Twitter' almost every few seconds while using my device.
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A Twitter app *is* optional. That's why most of us don't see the need to integrate this crap into the OS, whether we see the value of it as a service or not.
 
Age

I suspect this is a sign that I'm getting older and basically turning into my dad, but I simply don't understand what Twitter is for. I have a Twitter account and posted a few comments to it but after that I couldn't see the point in it. To be perfectly honest I have a similar issue with Facebook. While in the case of Facebook I do periodically check to see what my friends have been doing, I almost never post an update myself since it seems a bit "look at me". It seems my limit, at the moment, for "social networking" is email and SMS. Blogs are OK (heck, I wrote my Master's dissertation on that subject) but they do need a strong subject to make them work and I don't "get" personal blogs at all.

Actually, while I'm working my way to mild rant, what is with corporate Facebook pages and every company and their dog asking me to become their friend? The whole idea of it is nauseating.
 
I don't use twitter, I don't like twitter, and I really don't want twitter stuck in my phone. Hopefully it's non-obtrusive or can be completely disabled.
 
Why so negative?

The good thing about Twitter is that it's exactly what you want it to be. It's only a social network if you follow friends and tweet about the smell of your farts, but it's an rss reader when you only follow news sites. And you can make a private account if you wish. Just because Apple integrates it, doesn't mean you have to engage in the 'twitter-culture' (which may be a fad but only time will tell).

I see twitter as a very generic global human-to-human (either 1-1 or 1-*) API for short messages, capturing the essence of sms, rss, email, instant messaging, facebook walls and every other way of sharing short messages that evolved over the last 20 years, without pretending to be something specific. It's completely up to you what to do with it. Maybe it evolves into something unforeseen when it's integrated in iOS 5.

In short, Twitter is much more than a social network, because it's much less than a social network. It's messages and not much more.
 
This would be cool feature. I'm expected a lot of cool stuff at this conference if they're really not announcing a new iPhone. They must have a lot if they think they have enough to talk about it without the new phone.
 
I use Twitter very occasionally and only really use it to keep up to date with tennis related stuff. Don't really see the need of 'deep' integration though.
 
Whoopteedoo.

Twitter has never provided anything worthwhile. Sure, some info services might use it well, but for most people it's a lot of "HEY! TAKIN' A HUGE DUMP IN BK BATHROOM. JUST DONE WIPIN'!" type stuff.
 
Kelmon said:
I suspect this is a sign that I'm getting older and basically turning into my dad, but I simply don't understand what Twitter is for. I have a Twitter account and posted a few comments to it but after that I couldn't see the point in it. To be perfectly honest I have a similar issue with Facebook. While in the case of Facebook I do periodically check to see what my friends have been doing, I almost never post an update myself since it seems a bit "look at me". It seems my limit, at the moment, for "social networking" is email and SMS. Blogs are OK (heck, I wrote my Master's dissertation on that subject) but they do need a strong subject to make them work and I don't "get" personal blogs at all.

Actually, while I'm working my way to mild rant, what is with corporate Facebook pages and every company and their dog asking me to become their friend? The whole idea of it is nauseating.
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While I understand your point, I also noticed how you don't seem to have a problem posting here.

Maybe you just need a group of people interested in the same subject.

I can't speak for Twitter (Hate it) but on Facebook I have a lot of fun discussing off the wall topics with my friends or commenting on pictures.

It really depends on how you use it.

Twitter on the other hand,is just a bunch of on the spot inner thoughts not meant for the public and is usually regretted later
 
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