The Impact Of Apple And Twitter On Facebook

iPhones will now have Twitter for identity, but is that what developers really want?

Yesterday Apple made a huge announcement that Twitter would be deeply integrated into the company’s new operating system. How does this impact Facebook?

Apple says w that third party developers can quickly implement Twitter application programming interfaces for user authentication, a feature that Facebook has offered for a long time now.

The result is that Twitter will probably become the most dominant identity provider on the world’s best known smartphone. However this will not kill Facebook for websites.

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