Twitter launched its own photo and video hosting

Yes, something happened that had recently been written on Habre: 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 such services as Twitpic and Yfrog have a very serious competitor who is unlikely to put up with them for a long time, and Twitter has all the levers of control.

So far, nothing has been said about pressure on competitors, but we can well expect Twitter to act against services created by third-party companies. Now the “native” photo hosting is not available for all Twitter users, but after a short time (about a couple of weeks), it will be opened for users of all countries. This was stated by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.
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According to him, the new Twitter services are tied to tweets, and in order to view photos or videos, you will not have to go anywhere - everything will be available right in the message flow. In addition, the most popular videos and tweets will be posted in the new section of the main page of the service.

All those who work with Twitter from their mobile devices will be able to receive updated versions of applications that support the new functions of the microblogging service after some time.

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

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



Via mashable