• GigaOm, Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:26 PM

Twitter is expected to benefit greatly from the upcoming release of Apple’s latest operating system, Mountain Lion. “Twitter, Flickr and Vimeo are some of the third-party services that will offered as part of [the system’s] new ‘share sheet’ that allows you to share links, photos and videos directly from the app one is using on the Mac,” GigaOm reports. “Twitter, however, is the one that is pretty much everywhere inside the new operating system.” And this isn’t the first time that Apple has blessed the microblogging service.

In iOS 5, Apple integrated Twitter, and in no time at all the service saw “sign-ups more than double and the number of tweets sent increase over 90%,” according to Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter. Along with Twitter and the other winners of the Apple OS sweepstakes, there are also some losers, however. Doing just fine on their own, granted, Facebook and Google’s YouTube have both been conspicuously kept out of Apple’s app party.

Yet, as GigOm notes, “Apple’s decision to unfriend Facebook has turned out to be a boon for third-party social services that are now finding their way into Apple operating environments.”

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