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"Jack Dorsey may have trouble defining Twitter, the information network he helped to create, but Apple seems less confused. \nThe highly valued technology company has built Twitter into iOS 5, essentially making it the default social graph and social network on Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.\n\"We hear from a lot of our customers on iPhone, and iPad and iPod Touch that they love Twitter, so we want to make it even easier for all of our customers to use Twitter on iOS products,\" Apple's Scott Forstall said during the WWDC 2011 keynote.\nWhen iOS 5 is released this fall, device users will able to sign in to their Twitter accounts once and then tweet with a single tap from Apple's applications \u2014 Camera, Photos, Safari, Contacts, YouTube and Maps \u2014 and third-party applications that support the single sign-on capability.\nTwitter: The Social Network On iOS Devices\nApple launched a music social network in iTunes called Ping in September. At launch, Ping had Facebook integration, but a disagreement between the two companies resulted in Facebook integration being removed, much to the detriment of Ping's success.\nBut Apple's complicated relationship history with Facebook paved the way for its new intimate romance with Twitter.\nFacebook is in no way integrated in iOS 5, nor is its familiar blue logo anywhere to be found in Apple's promotional materials. Twitter, by contrast, is everywhere. It 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.\n\"Building Twitter into iOS 5 truly creates the easiest way to share everything that\u2019s happening in your world. Take a picture, tap 'Tweet,' \" Dorsey said of the news. \"Tweeting has never been simpler.\"\nThe implications are vast. Twitter will essentially become the default social network for iOS users. It's as if Apple reached down in a God-like fashion, grabbed Twitter with its almighty hand and lifted it up to the social networking heavens.\nFacebook's social graph may reign supreme today \u2014 many consider Facebook to own the social graph \u2014 but Apple will play a huge role in equalizing the playing field.\nLook no further than the Contacts integration as proof. iOS users who perform the single sign-on with Twitter can automatically have their contact records updated with the Twitter avatars and usernames of their Twitter friends. \n\"Want to mention or @reply to a friend? Contacts applies your friends\u2019 Twitter usernames and profile pictures. So you can start typing a name and iOS 5 does the rest,\" Apple explains. \"You can even add a location to any tweet, no matter which app you\u2019re tweeting from.\"\nIf you want your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to become an instantly social device, use Twitter, so sayeth the almighty Apple. Never before has Twitter's value proposition sounded so simple.\n\n\nTwitter In iOS 5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwitter in iOS 5\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweet From Safari, YouTube &amp; Maps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTweet a Photo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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