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It’s easy to take Twitters deep integration on iOS 5 and go nuts with speculation surrounding its symbolism; “Twitter is the new Facebook,” whatever that means! “Apple chose Twitter over Facebook!” Well as this video of a test build of iOS 4 from this April brings to light, perhaps the choice wasn’t necessarily Apple¦ If you watch the above video closely, at minute 1:03 you can see clear signs of Facebook integration in the leaked iPhone’s native apps screen, with Twitter nowhere to be seen. What’s interesting to note is that in this build of iOS 4 Facebook sits squarely where Twitter is now in the iOS 5 settings menu, without the added icon for iCloud (see left versus right, below).
It turns out that Facebook blocked access to their API:
AllThingsD hears from unnamed sources that Facebook blocked Apple’s use of the Facebook API within Ping “since it violated its terms of service.” As a result, Apple reportedly then killed the advertised find-Ping-friends-via-Facebook feature.
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