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Twitter CEO: Apple, ‘our corporate mentor,’ signups up over 3 times with iOS 5 Twitter integration

“Twitter has only just begun to see the effects of its integration with iOS 5, the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. But just days after iOS 5′s debut last week, the microblogging startup has already gotten a major lift from the big partnership,” Colleen Taylor reports for GigaOM.

“Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said in an on-stage conversation with John Battelle at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Monday evening… [that] Twitter saw its daily signups for the service via iOS devices such as the iPhone and the iPad go up more than three times on the first day of iOS 5′s availability October 12,” Taylor reports. “‘Those guys [at Apple] are an amazing partner for us,’ Costolo said. ‘[At Twitter] we’re going to offer simplicity in a world of complexity… they’re a corporate mentor to us.’

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[Attribution: AppleInsider. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]

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