As expected, Twitter is adding photos to its social network. To do this, Twitter has partnered with Photobucket, which will host the photos behind the scenes, in news first revealed via the Twitter Blog. However, this doesn't mean a Twitter agreement with Apple isn't close at hand too for iDevices. In fact, it may be very close to becoming reality..

The team behind the popular Lifelike Alarm Clock and Weather HD app is set to release another clock app for the iPad. The new Lifelike Flip Clock HD app should hit the App Store later this week and it looks promising.

Do you enjoy citizen journalism and reporting news as you go? An iPhone app called Meporter allows you to do this on the fly. It is based on location tracking so you can report news locally.

Twitter, the social networking monster is about to get into the photo-sharing business. To do so, it might have found an equally impressive partner: Apple, by way of iOS 5.

With now just a bit more than a week to go before this year’s WWDC, rumors continued to spin about iOS 5, iCloud, and the possibility of a new iPhone this week. Meanwhile, Google made some interesting moves. These and other stories made news in the week that was:

Want to send greeting cards with your iDevice to friends and family? Check out Face Up! Photos, which is a universal app. Using this app you can customize backgrounds, add photos from your albums, and much more.

The folks behind the popular Twitter app for Mac and iOS devices, Echofon, have just released a new iPhone/iPod touch app for the App Store. Photofon strips away the content of everyone you follow on Twitter to only show tweets that include photos.

A new app allows the creation of one-touch shortcuts for easy access on an iPhone/iPod touch. Channels, which arrived in the App Store this week, allows you to link to other apps and services including phone calls, FaceTime, messages, email, maps, websites, RSS Feeds, YouTube Videos, Twitter feeds and Skype.

One of the App Store’s most popular photo-taking apps has received yet another update. Instagram has been updated to Version 1.8, one week after its last. With it, the app includes some new interactive features.

A new app has arrived that promises users the ability to know everything about the person right next to them. Sonar – Mobile Profile for Local Social Networking, which debuted at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, is available now in the App Store.

The first major update to Factyle's Smartr social-networking app is now available. Smartr v2.0 provides a complete user interface redesign of the main screen that is well worth downloading the update as soon as possible.

Political Fury was updated to v2.0 earlier this month, brining a number of big additions to the app. To celebrate, Super Boise has teamed up with AppAdvice for an exclusive promotion and giveaway.

The game developing giant that brought you Order & Chaos online have stepped into the social networking world, and they did it well.

If politics play a large part in your daily life, but you are unsure how strong your beliefs are compared to the views of your party of choice, check out Label Quiz. This app is free and mixes social networking features with news feeds, polls, information and trivia questions.

Travel across the universe taking on aliens and pirates, go on a Walkabout to collect magic stars, and shout at people on Facebook with today's AGF list. We also have a physics-based matching game, a line-drawing game, an Office Gamebox, and more.

Considered only a minor release, TweetyPop v1.03 could be deemed significant by some due to some very important bug fixes. Today's TweetyPop update is focused on correcting issues, however, TapFactory did toss in a single feature addition.

Now is the perfect time to send your mom a Mother's Day gift card through your iPhone directly. Thank You Pen allows you to do this and is available for free on the App Store.

If you want to make yourself appear on the red carpet, or at an important event, like a sports conference, check out Famebooth. The image-manipulation app can spice up your photos up with flair.

Tired of having to use different apps to send messages on your iPhone? There is now a solution. WHITEXT lets users send text to multiple services all from one app.

London, UK-based TweetDeck has been acquired by Twitter. The deal, first announced by TechCrunch, is valued at between $40 and $50 million and will include both cash and Twitter stock.

Be the life of the party with a wealth of celebrity gossip and fashion news with this social networking news feed app.

In a move to criticize the Android app Dog Wars, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has released its own app for iDevices. It is intended to encourage others to participate in urgent alerts against cruelty to animals.