Tag: TWITPIC

Twitpic, the Twitter photo-posting service, has now extended its reach into photos that move, also known as "video". Users will now be able to upload quick videos shot on the move, and share them directly with Twitter. Twitter's Web interface currently only shows a thumbnail of the video, but Twitpic says it's working on embedding the actual video into Twitter. Right now it basically looks ...

Posterous and TwitPic have been in an ongoing battle over Posterous' efforts to release an app that lets you pull your TwitPic photos into your Posterous blog. After the first attempt, TwitPic blocked Posterous entirely, and threatened to sue, so Posterous took down the app. Now it's back, though, as an Adobe-Air-based export tool that TwitPic can't block (yet). The new tool lets you sign in ...

Posterous, as I'm sure you're all aware, is the supremo light-weight blogging platform. Not only is it fantastically easy to use, but it's also the king of flexibility and interoperability -- you can post to your blog via email, bookmarklet, mobile phone and even Twitter! It also has the ability to import from other platforms: WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr and switch from many others -- but yesterday ...

As we mentioned last week, Twitter ad networks aren't dead. In fact, it looks like they're just getting warmed up. Ad.ly is getting ready to launch ads in third-party Twitter clients, which is a whole new level of Twitter advertising. Ad.ly for Apps serves location-based ads to users, in-stream, right in a Twitter client. It's got an API, making it pretty easy to build into other Twitter apps. ...

Want a good Twitter client for your Windows system that doesn't necessitate installing Adobe Air? Check out MahTweets. If you're willing to overlook the...er...interesting interface, MahTweets is loaded with features. It's built on .Net 3.5 and the Windows Presentation Foundation and is available as a ClickOnce installer. CPU and memory usage are very respectable, and updates are sent and ...

Flickr has launched its own service - Flickr2Twitter - for sending images to Twitter, and at first glance, it looks like it could compete head-on with existing Twitter photo services like Twitpic and Yfrog. Flickr's system is a bit different than the others, though, and doesn't yet have application support from a major Twitter client. Taking that into consideration, I think there's a good case ...

Have you heard of Twitpic? No, we didn't just call you a bad name. Promise. Twitpic is a new entry into the Twittersphere that allows users to upload photos from their computer to Twitter. The interface is simple, and so is the actual uploading. First, you enter your Twitter login information. Second, you select an image to share. Third, you add a caption (if wanted) and post the picture. You ...