“Combined, the iPhone accounts for at least 39% of all photos posted to Twitter, largely due to Instagram and Twitter for iPhone,” Matthew Panzarino reports for TNW.
“With the integration of Twitter into iOS 5, not only did Twitter score themselves a deep toehold on one of the best mobile operating systems around, but it also nearly guaranteed itself longevity,” Panzarino reports. “iOS 5 has been adopted quickly by users of the iPhone, with recent numbers putting it at roughly 1/3 of all iOS users already upgraded. The massive sales of the iPhone 4S haven’t hurt either, with millions of new users of Twitter being minted by the month. Twitter has been pushing the integration hard too, with a fancy landing page aimed at demonstrating how Twitter integrates with iOS.”
Panzarino reports, “I have a feeling that it is just the beginning. Apple is going to sell huge numbers of iPhone and iPad over the Christmas season and every one of them will have an invitation to install the Twitter app waiting for them in its Settings.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Attribution: Cult of Mac. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
social apps bore me to distraction.
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Amen to that.
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Yes!
It also helps that since the v.4, iPhones have the superior (and most popular) camera phones, now surpassing many point-and-clicks with the 4S. Also, it helps that Instagram is one app that sure got things right, with a new user every second. Literally.