Is Twitter Headed Back to Windows Live?
I’ve written about the lack of Twitter integration on Windows Live and the newer Windows Phone and is something that I’ve been keeping an eye on as well, I was pleased to read this morning on Liveside that this situation could be changing.
When the newest version of Windows Live first rolled out, Microsoft had to discontinue any Twitter support due to policy changes made by Twitter. At this year’s Mobile World Congress Microsoft announced that Twitter would be returning to Windows Phone via its People Hub as part of the Mango update. However, that still leaves questions about Twitter integration with Windows Live, just as it currently has with Facebook.
That answer may have been answered in a round-about way with a tweet from a Microsoft employee that was apparently also a test of a check-in service that may be coming. As noted in the Liveside post:
A recent post from MobileTechWorld seems to hint that Twitter might make a come back to Windows Live. Ken Dacey, Senior Test Lead at Microsoft, recently made a tweet indicating that he is testing the Twitter functionality on Windows Phone. The tweet had since been deleted, but as always, things never fully disappear from the internet:
Interestingly, as shown above, Twitter shows that the tweet was made from “Windows Phone(viaWindowsLive)INT”, indicating that the Windows Live might also be getting some of the Twitter integration as well. In fact, a Twitter account called @TwitWL had been created since February 2011 solely for the purpose of testing tweets coming from Windows Phone/Windows Live. Unfortunately, clicking on the “Windows Phone(viaWindowsLive)INT” simply takes you back to the Windows Phone homepage.
I know that Paul, my co-host of Daily Brief, believes that the idea of a check-in service is the more important thing with the news but I think that getting Twitter integration back into Windows Live and into Windows Phone is an important feature that Microsoft has to implement; or restore in the case of Windows Live, as quickly as possible.
[Cross-posted at Winextra]
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