Twitter launched its own photo and video hosting

Yes, something happened that was recently written on Habré: Twitter opened its own photo and video hosting. Video hosting, as we see, is an unexpected bonus to the expected photo hosting service. It seems that services such as Twitpic and Yfrog have a very serious competitor who is unlikely to put up with them for a long time, and the Twitter developers have all the control levers.

So far, nothing has been said about pressure on competitors, but Twitter’s actions against services created by third-party companies can be expected. Now the "native" photo hosting is not available for all Twitter users, but in a short time (about a couple of weeks), it will be open to users of all countries. This was stated by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.

According to him, the new Twitter services are “tied” to tweets, and in order to view photos or videos, you won’t have to go anywhere - everything will be available right in the message stream. In addition, the most popular videos and tweets will be posted in a new section of the service’s main page.

All those who work with Twitter from their mobile device will be able to receive updated versions of applications that support the new microblogging service features after a while.

Interestingly, Twitter’s technical partner for the new photo and video hosting is Photobucket. Twitter photos will now be tagged with “powered by Photobucket.” When you click on the link, the user will be taken to a page where you can edit the photo, share it with friends, or save the photo to Photobucket.

Now one interesting question remains - will Twitter claim ownership of all content posted by users? Dick Costolo said that all rights to the photo, video and text belong to users, so everything seems to be in order.



Via Mashable