Following a whirlwind week and a half of product announcements, you can throw Twitter’s attempts to differentiate itself as an “information network” out the window — there is little doubt the company is now entrenched in serious competition with Facebook for the much grander social networking crown.
After announcing that it would finally be bringing native photo and video sharing to its service on June 1, Twitter’s biggest product win to-date came on Tuesday, when Apple announced that iOS 5 would include deep Twitter integration.
That means that the 200 million plus people with iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices (or at least the tens of millions able to upgrade to iOS 5) will have the ability to do things like post photos, videos and links to Twitter with a single tap.
Application developers will also be able to add this type of functionality to their iOS applications, further accelerating the impact of the partnership.
In summarizing the significance of that, my Mashable colleague Jennifer Van Grove wrote, “[Twitter] will soon be the social layer of iOS, enabling users to turn individual actions such as snapping a photo or reading an article into instant social activities.”
For Facebook, who has long positioned itself as the social graph of the Web (and in turn mobile), that’s a big blow.
Sure, application developers can still build Facebook integration into their iOS apps, but by making Twitter the default in apps like Camera, Safari and YouTube, Apple has dictated where millions of pieces of content will invariably flow.
Via: CNNTech
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