It’s official: Elon Musk has bought Twitter for $44 billion. A purchase that augurs significant changes for the platform. Changes that could have a significant impact on how we use microblogging social network. Let’s talk about what we could see on Apple platforms.
More and better apps and more
Although Musk gave some hints about his plans for Twitter, the truth is that we have very little information. Even so, we can draw interesting conclusions. One of the clues the mogul has revealed is turning Twitter into a “people’s square” of the modern era.
“A lot of people are going to be very unhappy with West Coast high tech as the de facto arbiter of free speech,” Musk tweeted. With this, with greater freedom of expression on the platform, it is possible to think of an important opening of the social network. Here we may come to mind multiple social media clients.
Apps like Tweetbot or Twitterrific now lag behind the official app in capabilities (but not design or other functionality) due to service access API limitations. Changes to this API could see a greater offer of applications for our Apple devices. Also keep in mind that Elon Musk uses an iPhone, his tweets reveal, so we can focus a bit more on apps for Apple platforms.
If we add to this that Musk has already commented that he would like to reduce Twitter’s dependence on advertising, perhaps by migrating it to a more paying service, like Twitter Blue, it is possible to imagine new features in the form of features for subscribers. One could think of greater integration with iOS or the Mac, an app for Apple TV or perhaps even a bet on integration with Apple News (especially now that the algorithms of the social network “should” be open source ).
Let’s also not lose sight of TweetDeek, perhaps the best social network client for Mac, which lately was a bit behind and now could use a nice facelift and update. On the contrary, it seems that we will all benefit from Elon being the new owner of Twitter. And, for some reason, I have a feeling that Apple users will be among the first.
