Apple this week anointed Twitter as a built-in feature of the next version of its mobile platform.
The partnership, announced during Apple’s WWDC keynote yesterday, is an obvious diss to Facebook and its Facebook Connect service, which had been Apple’s pick to power social features for iTunes Ping. That deal fell apart last year over what Steve Jobs called “onerous terms,” and relations between the two companies have since been strained.
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