Buying Twitter might help Apple figure out how the internet works

Buying Twitter might help Apple figure out how the internet works:

A former Apple engineer is the latest to argue that the giant consumer-electronics company he used to work for should acquire Twitter, an argument that has been made a number of times in the past year or so. But Patrick Gibson - who worked on the original iPad - isn't saying that Apple should buy Twitter just so it can make its apps and services more social: he thinks Apple needs to acquire it because the company lacks the ability to understand or design web-based services that actually work. Could Twitter fill the holes in Apple's DNA when it comes to the internet? The...