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At the uniquely styled Twitter office, where flocks of birds are appliquéd on the walls and healthy lunches are served family style–the Mac is everywhere and Apple solutions enable creativity on a daily basis. In keeping with the casual, open office theme, Twitter’s common areas are equipped with Mac mini and iMac systems, Bluetooth keyboards and mice for presentations and demonstrations, and Apple Cinema Displays.
Among the many reasons the Twitter organization is attracted to the MacBook and MacBook Air is their low power consumption, which reflects the company’s green ethic.
At Twitter, software engineers use Mac systems running the most recent version of Mac OS X. Twitter was built using software tools which is provided as part of Mac OS X.
Software engineers, many of whom were attracted to Twitter as an employer because of its bent for the Mac, love the fact that Mac OS X is an operating system designed from the ground up for serious software development work. The MacBook Air machines they travel with are the same ones they use for software development.
Twitter design teams run site testing by flipping between Safari and Firefox, and if they want to test on Windows, they fire up a virtual machine running VMware on their Mac systems.
While Twitter employees can work on whatever computer they choose, they invariably request the Mac.
Naturally, Twitter employees collaborate using Twitter. On Fridays, people gather in the afternoon to catch up on the week via video iChat, where remotely located, free-floating talking heads on MacBook systems are hoisted to eye level around the conference table. When software engineering teams work in multiple group chats, they use a web-based group chat service for the Mac and iPhone.
Clearly, Twitter has an affinity for Apple tools, but then again, the attraction goes both ways.
When it comes to availability, iPhones accommodate peoples’ needs to work remotely and stay connected with the Twitter team.
“The Mac is the same way. It offers beautiful design, simple elegance, and a system that’s incredibly flexible and powerful to use” Stone.
i wish 2 be member of Apple-Twitter!!!
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