It is reported that Twitter will reveal its own photo-sharing service this week at a conference in California.
It is reported that Twitter will reveal its own photo-sharing service this week at a conference in California. According to a TechCrunch report, the service could be up and running on Tuesday.
At the moment, when Twitter users want to attach photos to their tweets, they turn to third-party services like TwitPic and yfrog. Links to images appear in the tweets, and presumably Twitter’s own service would work in the similar way. In the previous month, there was discussion of the company expanding branded pages to its site as a way of creating a revenue stream.
The release of a photo-sharing service would also be another signal of Twitter’s intent to take control of its ecosystem. In March, the company informed that app developers who create new Twitter clients that replicate Twitter functionality would be wasting their time although this evidently didn’t stop everyone.
In the previous week Twitter announced on its blog that it had purchased desktop client TweetDeck for a sum of $40 million. This acquisition is a significant step forward for us. TweetDeck also supplies brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations they care about. So as to support this important constituency, they will go on to invest in the TweetDeck that users know and love.
