Phil Schiller's Twitter account gets verified
Apple's Phil Schiller has joined Scott Forstall (though not Steve Jobs) over on Twitter -- he now has a verified account to tweet from, and is following a few celebrity and official company accounts so far. The account's actually been around for a while (Schiller tweeted from France while there and mentioned 500 million app downloads when it was announced last January), but only recently got verified, which means there's one more official Apple voice on the networking service.
It's strange that Apple still doesn't have a real official presence on Twitter -- Schiller follows an account called @AppleIncNews, but it appears to be a simple RSS feed of Apple website news, and it's not verified by Twitter as official at all. There are certainly plenty of fake Steve Jobs accounts, but none of those have been verified either. Especially since Steve seems so easygoing with his Stevemails, you think Twitter would be a perfect place for him to interface directly with the Apple community.
But so far, all we've got is Forstall and Schiller, and neither of them seem very forthcoming about interacting with the community of Apple fans online.
[via 9to5Mac]
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Schiller has been on twitter since November of 2008 and I've been following him since early 2009. He doesn't put much on Twitter but he may now since he has many more followers.
November 30 2010 at 8:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think Phil, Scott are using and will use Twitter in a kind of classical fashion:-) The way it was meant to be used originally - to stay in touch with people you Know and Care:-) No way they are gonna have hundreds of people in the Following list.
November 24 2010 at 5:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI think Phil, Scott are using and will use Twitter in a kind of classical fashion:-) The way it was meant to be used originally - to stay in touch with people you Know and Care:-) No way they are gonna have hundreds of people in the Following list.
November 24 2010 at 5:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWho the hell cares.
November 23 2010 at 8:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAs a tech blogger, I think you think more people use twitter than actually do....
(compared to the other, more useful, ways of communicating that the vast majority of real people actually use...)
190 million is a pretty decent number, I think.
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/08/twitter-190-million-users/
Plus, Twitter has been involved in news stories more than Facebook or email these days thanks to the immediacy and public-facing nature of the service.
http://www.blogherald.com/2008/04/28/tweet-frees-man-from-egyptian-prison/
I'd say it is relevant, despite us being mere tech bloggers.
I think Steve might be overwhelmed by Twitter. I mean, 140 characters is a lot for him to write.
November 23 2010 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply140 characters is fine. You're just reading it wrong.
November 23 2010 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyApple doesn't need to tweet!
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