World fomous social networking site Twitter is the new Facebook

Following a whirlwind week and a half of product announcements, you can throw Twitter's attempts to differentiate itself as an "social information network" out the window -- there is little doubt about the company is now entrenched in very serious competition now with Facebook for get the much grander social networking crown.
After this announcing that it would finally be bringing native photo and video sharing to its service on June 1, Twitter's biggest product win to-date came on Tuesday, when Apple announced that latest iOS 5 would include with deep Twitter integration.
That means that the 200 million more people with iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch devices (or at least the tens of millions able to the upgrade to iOS 5) will have the ability to do this things like post photos, videos and links to Twitter with a one single tap.
Application developers will also be able to add this type of functionality to their iOS
applications, further accelerating the impact of the partnership.In summarizing the significance of that, my Mashable colleague Jennifer Van Grove wrote, "[Twitter] will soon be the social layer of iOS, enabling users to turn individual actions such as snapping a photo or reading an article into instant social activities."
For Facebook, who has long positioned itself as the social graph of the Web (and in turn mobile), that's a big blow.
Sure,
application developers can still build Facebook integration into their iOS apps, but by making Twitter the default in apps like Camera,

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