Tech giant Apple and social networking star Twitter recently held talks in an attempt to have Apple make a strategic investment in the messaging firm. No deal could be worked out and there are no talks currently going on between the two. The story originated in the New York Times which said that Apple's lack of a toehold in the social networking scene led to the talks. Apple firm sees the importance of social networking and wants to be involved.

Apple was said to be considering an investment totaling in the hundreds of millions of dollars, which would have valued Twitter at $10 billion. In the most recent round of financing, the messaging firm was valued at $8.4 billion. All of this information came from sources wishing to be anonymous which is expected considering the privacy of the talks.

"Those guys (Apple) are a great partner. We think of them as a company that our company looks up to" - Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO

"Apple doesn't have to own a social network But does Apple need to be social? Yes." - Tim Cook, Apple CEO

Source NYT

Tech giant Apple and social networking star Twitter recently held talks in an attempt to have Apple make a strategic investment in the messaging firm. No deal could be worked out and there are no talks currently going on between the two. The story originated in the New York Times which said that Apple's lack of a toehold in the social networking scene led to the talks. Apple firm sees the importance of social networking and wants to be involved.

Apple was said to be considering an investment totaling in the hundreds of millions of dollars, which would have valued Twitter at $10 billion. In the most recent round of financing, the messaging firm was valued at $8.4 billion. All of this information came from sources wishing to be anonymous which is expected considering the privacy of the talks.

"Those guys (Apple) are a great partner. We think of them as a company that our company looks up to" - Dick Costolo, Twitter CEO

"Apple doesn't have to own a social network But does Apple need to be social? Yes." - Tim Cook, Apple CEO

Source NYT

Twitter users using Windows Phone 7 devices have been waiting for this one for quite some time now and it has finally released. The Carbon app is now available on the Windows Marketplace and can be purchased for 1.99 USD.

Here is some of the goodies that you will enjoy on this App:

• Full inline Pictures on the Timeline

• Double Tap on tweets for quickly replying to tweets without the need to leave timelines

• Quickline: A swiss army timeline for accessing all kinds of timelines from Lists, Retweets, Saved Searches.

• Live Ties for every account, pinnable to the Home Screen with Mentions & Direct Messages background checks

• Compose Tile, pinning a compose tile on the Home Screen for a speedy tweet composition

• Search Tiles, pin a #hashtag or keywords to your home screen for quick access to a search timeline

• Threaded Direct Messages View

• Bit.ly Pro URL shortening

• Read Later support

This week twitter started a larger rollout of its enhance brand pages. We first caught wind of these new brand pages back in early December 2011 and the first page we saw was from Pepsi. Enhance brand pages allow different companies, brands, organizations, and others to set up twitter pages that more closely reflect the corporate personality and color schemes of the businesses.

Yesterday, several new brand pages rolled out on twitter, including pages for NBC news, Volkswagen, the Huffington Post, and several others.