Twitter to be integrated in the system-level in iOS 5?

By on May 31, 2011 at 8:50 PM
mobile May 31, 2011

Both Daring Fireball and TechCrunch are reporting that Apple’s iOS 5, the next major software release for Apple’s mobile devices, will integrate Twitter (and most likely Facebook, with possibly other social services) at the system-level, offering up unique social experiences beyond just simple photo-sharing. TechCrunch has heard:

We’ve heard from multiple sources that Twitter is likely to have a big-time partner for such a service: Apple. Specifically, we’re hearing that Apple’s new iOS 5 will come with an option to share images to Twitter baked into the OS. This would be similar to the way you can currently share videos on YouTube with one click in iOS. Obviously, a user would have to enable this feature by logging in with their Twitter credentials in iOS. There would then be a “Send to Twitter” option for pictures stored on your device.

Though Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber adds the cayenne pepper on top of the original report:

So close to the bigger story, but yet so far. Imagine what else the system could provide if your Twitter account was a system-level service.

We’ll all see how this shakes out in under a week from now.

Read [TechCrunch] Read [Daring Fireball]

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  • Anonymous

    sounds like wana be blackberry social integration to me.

    • Anonymous

      and re-create the concept of “super-app”

  • JR1010

    They copying of Windows Phone 7 starts already.

    • Anonymous

      No worries. They checked with all twenty-three WP7 users, and none of them mind. 

    • http://daveysmind.tumblr.com David M.D.

      I don’t think it’s too much copying. Android does this already also. It’s just common evolution with social apps. 

    • AnonGuy

      Samsung had Social Hub before WP7 existed, so stop crying about who’s copying what.  WP7′s Social Network integration is terrible BTW (yes, I have a WP7 device).  No Push Notifications, you can barely do shit with it, and it doesn’t even update in the background.  It’s basically useless and was a waste of development time seeing as how the OS is so functionally terrible right now they could have used that development time to add features that matter.

  • Anonymous

    Apple running out of ideas?  This is a gimmick at best.

    • Anonymous

      Good point. Normally I go to Google for my gimmicks, like “Wave,” “Google TV,” etc. 

      • Anonymous

        Right. And if I want expensive gimmicks that also have no use, I turn to Apple again, like “MobileMe,” “Apple TV,” etc.

      • Anonymous

        Obviously you’ve never used the $100 Apple TV.

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ZX7I3VN423YBFEWTEQOQ5JR5ME Retro

        BB fan here and will say the $100 Apple TV was one of the best purchases I’ve ever made.

  • Cer

    “Imagine what else the system could provide if your Twitter account was a system-level service.”

    I can’t imagine anything useful. Anyone?

    • Prof. Peabody

      I’m going to go with Contacts integration and FaceTime for 500 Alex. 

      • Cer

        I suppose that’s useful. Not particularly noteworthy though.

    • Anonymous

      Twitter’s Direct Messaging could replace text messaging.

      • Cer

        That’s an interesting idea.

  • Anonymous

    I user twitter but more in a RSS feed sense. I’d rather see Facebook integration.

  • http://twitter.com/mistercarter7 Mike Gonzalez

    am i the only 1 expecting a kind of “social” app like the one Blackberry 6.0 and 7.0 rock!? anyways, i hope it’s like that cuz i love me some Blackberry social

  • Prof. Peabody

    Probably someone already pointed it out, but Daring Fireball is pointing to the TechCrunch piece.  You make it sound like two sources have the same idea when it’s actually only one.  

  • http://twitter.com/oomatter Seth Aaron

    So will twitter become a preloaded and unremovable app now?

  • Bob

    I still don’t see the appeal of twitter…

  • Rob

    Anything to get rid of this awful Facebook app.

  • http://hurmoth.com/ Hurmoth

    Off topic, but does anyone know what case that is in the photo?

  • http://profiles.google.com/baggyguy1218 Brian King

    This would have been a good story and a great feature for iOS users if I had not already read and re-tweeted using the embedded twitter account on my Android powered Galaxy S. Apple… behind the curve again. 

    HAY! Maybe next they can add wallpapers that move and interact with your touches without actually being run as an app. Possibly like a living picture that acts as a wallpaper…or live wallpaper…that would really piss of Google and Microsoft fanboys. 

  • slackerjack

    Great so now more people can easily follow the ever-necessary string of “@applefelatio is in the toilet taking an icrap” tweets!

  • Anonymous

     John Gruber is just an idiot worshiping Apple. “ Imagine what else the system could provide if your Twitter account was a system-level service”. That’s it? I guess he thought hard and could not come up with anything such integration could actually provide.

  • Anonymous

    So you’re telling me that currently, you can’t view a photo and send it directly to Twitter on iOS? Really?! Please tell me I’ve read this wrong or misinterpreted it.. because that is just laughable..My BB can do it, it can send to Facebook too… Dunno how this warrants an article, or any praise… but I’m guessing iOS users aren’t used to apps actually being deeply integrated into the OS so that its functions can be accessed within other apps…Seems like iOS is actually taking baby steps to actually becoming “smart”. Good job Apple.

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