Ping Your Tweets or Tweet Your Ping?
Apple have agreed a deal with the micro-blogging site Twitter to promote the music in it’s iTunes store.
They see it as a way to increase the uptake of the ping service which has so far failed to set the world alight.
At the launch of Ping earlier this year Steve Jobs admitted to the AllThingsDigital blog that his company were in talks with Facebook looking to agree a partnership of sorts.
Ironically for many people, apple app developers perhaps, he allegedly said they couldn’t come to an agreement because the conditions were too onerous.
Time will tell if Ping really does manage to make any inroads into the social media arean, it seemed to have the ultimate headstart with millions of iTunes users already linked into the system but it has been a difficult year for Apple.
The halo that seemed to be permanently around Apple’s head over the last 10 years of product launches was dented with problems over the new Apple iPhone 4′s antenna. Users complained of dropped signals and in these days of 24 hour media coverage, in many people’s eyes they did not get the problems addressed quick enough.
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