Twitter launched its own photo upload service

Sooner or later it should have happened: tonight all Twitter users had the opportunity to upload pictures directly, without resorting to third-party services like TwitPic.

While this feature is only available through the web interface. In order to add a picture to your tweet, just click on the small camera icon located under the field for the message. Maximum upload photo size: 3 MB.
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The service for downloading images is organized in conjunction with PhotoBucket, although the users of the latter do not yet have the opportunity to post photos that are uploaded via Twitter to their albums on PhotoBucket. There is no data whether such integration of these services is planned in the future.

The photos appear as a link of the form pic.twitter.com/[id] using the t.co abbreviation, which actually leads to twimg.com. In the web interface, the image is scaled to 340 pixels in width or 453 in height. To enlarge the image to the size of 600 x 800, you need to click on it, it will appear in a separate tweet window. Here you can click on the photo again, after which it will open in the largest size.

According to TechCrunch , Twitter developers are planning to make their photo hosting service available for mobile applications and create custom photo galleries. Moreover, these galleries will “collect” not only photos uploaded to pic.twitter.com, but also other users who have ever been placed on third-party services. The ability to directly upload photos to the new hosting will be built into iOS5, which is expected this fall.

If developers do not have any problems with their new brainchild, the position of hosting sites like TwitPic or Yfrog by the next winter may seriously deteriorate.