(2011-06-07) Apple And Twitter

Way back on May31 Anil Dash pondered the idea of Apple Computer making a Twitter-competitor/clone. The hardest, most expensive technical part of building a web-scale Twitter competitor already exists in Apple's infrastructure. What's missing, in an odd reversal of Apple's usual pattern, is a well-designed, simple user experience that makes people want to participate. Could a small team of developers and designers within Apple make a credible realtime messaging service with first-rate native clients on every important platform?

Dave Winer considered (after prodding by Chuck Shotton) whether Apple should buy Twitter.

Instead they're integrating Twitter into IOS apps. iOS apps will look like, feel like, read from and publish to Twitter like never before.