Ping , Apple ’s societal web for medicine on the iTunes Store , is getting a little more social , but not with the web you might carry .
Announced onTwitter ’s prescribed blog , Ping now integrate with the popular microblogging service . you may soak your Twitter account up to Ping to share your purchases , euphony “ like , ” and other action . Perhaps most importantly , Ping can sift through your Twitter report to serve you find and add booster . Plus , if you use the recently redesigned Twitter.com , click a tweet with a Ping link will open up an iTunes Store area in the preview gore on the right , allowing you to sample the strain right on the Twitter Website .
An easier fashion to add new booster on Ping should go a long way to answering one of the social meshing ’s most frequent complaint . away from Ping ’s brief backup foradding champion via Facebook integration(which Apple is reportedly still talk terms to reenable ) , the only way to supply raw friend on Ping is by entering their vitamin E - mail addresses manually , one - by - one . In this day and age of frictionless social networking , this tedious appendage is consanguine to last by a thousand newspaper track , except you have to inflict each one on yourself .
Unfortunately , Apple may be up to its common misunderstanding of societal networking . Ping ’s Twitter consolidation should making it much easier to add together more admirer en masse — assuming you practice Twitter — but it could just as easily make you lose some of those friends . From our examination , it seems that publishing your Ping activity to Twitter is an all - or - nothing suggestion : either you print every leverage , “ like , ” and comment you make on friends ’s activity , or you publish none of them .
Still , Ping has finally broken free of the iTunes Store , which should be a nett amplification for Apple ’s first societal web . In metre , it would be great to see Apple telephone dial back the force publishing feature article so drug user don’thaveto permit the world know about that new Justin Beiber purchase .
