Twitter has acquired Cover, an Android app that lets you to customize your lock-screen.
“Twitter, like Cover, believes in the incredible potential of Android. They share our vision that smartphones can be a lot smarter — more useful and more contextual — and together we’re going to make that happen,” Cover’s founders wrote in a blog post. “We’ll be building upon a lot of what makes Cover great, and we’re thrilled to create something even better at Twitter.”
Cover basically takes in data such as time and location and using data that it has collected, it puts those apps on the lock-screen that it thinks you will most probably use in that context.
While Cover will remain in the Play Store, development on it will be ceased, for now.
“If that changes down the road, we’ll provide another update here,” the founders Todd Jackson, Gordon Luk and Edward Ho write in the blog post announcing the deal.
Twitter didn’t acquire Cover for the app per se, but for the technology behind it. Twitter wants to use the algorithms that provide you with the most contextually suitable apps to you to make Twitter better.
It still is a guess at best as it isn’t exactly clear about what Cover’s team will do at Twitter.
However, in the blog post, it has been hinted that the Twitter mobile experience will become “more useful and more contextual”.
Or, Twitter may be following the lines of Facebook and releasing a lock-screen replacement based around Twitter. Remember Facebook Home?
If Twitter is developing a lock-screen replacement with Cover, then this is our guess at how it would be: Cover’s contextually aware capabilities will be used to provide you with suitable tweets at the right place, at the right time.
The Twitter Mobile app may also be overhauled, with integration of Cover’s contextual prediction capabilities. We may see bits of Cover appearing in future updates to the official Twitter apps.
Sources: Cover
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