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I took that screen shot from Engadget’s iOS5 walk through. Twitter integration is nice but look at the top of the screen. A link to install Twitter’s official iPhone \/ iPad app right from the system preferences. No one will look for another Twitter app outside of the official one. This is bad news for all 3rd party apps.<\/p>\n

Also, why didn’t Apple choose Facebook for this integration? Twitter seems like an odd choice compared to the behemoth of Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I took that screen shot from Engadget’s iOS5 walk through. 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