There’s been a proliferation of photo sharing apps tied to Twitter, including TwitPic, Twitxr (review), and Yfrog (review), giving users a vast amount of choice when it comes to image sharing on the popular micro-blogging service. But TwitPic seems to have emerged as the leader of the pack.
The service took the top spot on our list of the most popular Twitter applications according to Compete and was in the top ten of Twitter clients according to TwitStat. Compete pegs TwitPic to have had close to 1.6 million unique visitors in February, and its traffic doesn’t show any signs of slowing down.
TwitStat says TwitPic is now the sixth most popular app used by Twitter clients, rising from being the tenth most popular app when we wrote about TwitStat’s rankings in mid-February. And TwitPic was even used to break news of the plane crash on the Hudson River.
Two more competitors to TwitPic have emerged. TweetPhoto and Pixim are both photo sharing applications attempting to challenge its dominance, so we took a closer look.
Pixim uses OAuth to integrate with Twitter (so you don’t have to give out your username and password) and lets you adjust privacy settings on sharing pictures, tag friends in uploaded pictures, view stats on how many people and who has seen you pictures and see your friend’s pictures on the site. Pixim is similar to TwitPic in many ways but the latter incorporates a geotagging tool and mobile support, which Pixim doesn’t have on its site. While Pixim is planning to release their API soon, TwitPic has the advantage of already being built into most popular Twitter clients, and users who are interested in photo sharing have a familiarity with TwitPic.
TweetPhoto, who plans to launch later this month, also lets you use OAuth to integrate your Twitter account. You are then able to send pics through your mobile phone or upload pics via the site. Like TwitPic, TweetPhoto lets users comment on pictures on-site and tag photos. TweetPhoto will also feature integration with Facebook Connect, which is pretty cool, and something both TwitPic and Pixim lack. Like Pixim, TweetPhoto plans to release its own API, but might confront the same issue with TwitPic’s dominance.
they are ok i guess but why dont folks just use tinypic . i really dont see the need for these services when tinypic is readily available.
Go away, Mr. Shill, who thinks tinypic is even remotely a contender, let alone a companion to twitter? Do you even know what twitter is?
cry me a river
Jon,
Actually, the guys behind Photobucket (which also own Tinypic), have http://www.twitgoo.com that’s in beta.
Just in case you didn’t know how big tinypic was http://www.quan...com/tinypic.com 15M uniques
Since it’s the same infrastructure as Photobucket/Tinypic you know the performance and scalability is there and you get a fail whale..
I’m sure it’ll do just fine. Give it a few months it’ll give twitpic a run for it..
poor typing.. of course I meant you WON’T get a fail whale..
Twitpic is definitely the best and easiest to use. especially since most 3rd party twitter clients use it also.
peter epstein
http://www.thew...war.com/twitter
The 3rd party support is huge. Twitpic will continue to grow while these imitators fail.
Twitpic is certainly the best one I’ve come across, although like a lot of twitter applications it seems to have its gliches on occasions – the first time I tried to connect a friends account to it to upload a few art photos it produced a great pic of some guy in rubber gloves and a hairnet! nice profile I’m sure but not the one she wanted!
Neil
I somewhat agree that tinypic is the way to go but tinypic uses a post-and-forget it kind of approach. It takes a lot more effort to store the urls of a pic. Also doesn’t have comments and view count. Then there’s also flickr although that’s for more serious higher quality photos… I don’t know, perhaps there’s too many of these out there but can’t complain with free I guess.
I used TwitPic all the time until I started a blog on Posterous. Has a very nice integration with Twitter and it keeps on getting better.
I love Posterous, and love the integration. I’m glad this company is getting such positive feedback and hope that they gain some ground.
exactly the integration is great in TwitPic, maybe his best feature.
From a functional standpoint, Twitpic is definitely the most bare offering possible. It just takes an image and shows it on a website. But scaling that to the size they’re at already is a big task, so Noah’s probably been too bogged down to build extra features. That’s really why I think Twitter should buy them. They’ve got revenue and Noah could really use the help with scaling the service so they can concentrate on adding new features. Picture editing, tagging (both keywords and people within photos), video, galleries, export to other services, etc. would all be great additions if Noah had the time.
Also, I’ve always thought a great tagline for Twitpic would have been “Add 1000 words to your 140 characters”. But my fault for not coming up with the idea for the service first
Slow news day. Here’s a good one I just found while searching for FC images:
Is Facebook violating the DMCA?
http://mirror.f...ibdvdcss/1.2.9/
lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2006-May/007036.html
“If I understood it right, deCSS is certainly a circumvention device, and
hence under the DMCA illegal”
Click on the files, they are there, HOSTED by Facebook’s servers.
Here is a direct link:
https://lists.u...May/007036.html
“If I understood it right, deCSS is certainly a circumvention device, and
hence under the DMCA illegal”
Specifically, you can download
http://mirror.f...ss-1.2.9.tar.gz
uncompress it with 7-Zip then browse to the file css.c on line 336
” if( ! CrackDiscKey( dvdcss, p_disc_key ) )
{
PrintKey( dvdcss, “cracked disc key is “, p_disc_key );
break;
}”
That should give you a better idea of whether this software that Facebook is offering people provides legal functionality or not. Whether it may violate the DMCA or not.
I can’t understand why people keep using these services when they could use something like http://www.pikchur.com that at least can sync the pics in all your other networks
Does anyone happen to know the font used for TweetPhoto, it’s exactly like Twitter’s.
Thanks @Davide , its true http://Pikchur.com does send piks to Twitter, but also Facebook, Flickr, and more. We also allow for customizable profiles, dynamic triggers and albums as well as the ability to follow people’s activities. Among other things we have a comprehensive API for developers to build upon and are always working toward new features and optimizations.
Thanks for the update, I will add to my watch list of top, well, 800 twitter apps.
We’re using http://tweetube.com. Pretty cool. You can share multiple pictures with one link.
I prefer to use a service like Tarpipe to post the photo to flickr and tweet a link to it. I would rather use a feature-rich and established site that I am already using than a one-off twitter specific site.
(here is my workflow: http://www.flic...hvw/3401315811/ )
Which brings up the question… why hasn’t flickr added this capability themselves?
I think newborn DailyBooth deserves a mention here.
The issue I have with many of these twitter picture apps is that my photos are at yet-another-web-site. I use flickr for my photos, and I want them all there, not in multiple different spots. That’s why I like http://www.snaptweet.com for tweeting out pics. I upload pix to flickr tagged with “st” and snaptweet tweets it out. All my pictures (and comments) stay at flickr.
my favorite has got to be tweetube. i find it to be the easiest to use, but maybe i should branch out.
I think you guys are relying too heavily on Compete for traffic data. Especially for some of these smaller sites.
SnapTweet (http://www.snaptweet.com) is awesome. Been using it for a long time. Definitely the way to go if you want to keep all your photos in one place (i.e., Flickr) instead of spreading them out across multiple networks.
Leena, take a look at Pikchur.com. I like how they give me a larger image (both file size and image size) with better resolution that other services I tried. A recent photo http://pikchur.com/tn0
When I email the photo from my iPhone, it automatically creates my Tweet message and sends the photo to Facebook, FriendFeed, BrightKite and Flickr.
Why do I need the same photo in different places? Each community has different features, but Pikchur.com makes it easy for me to send one email to upload a large photo with nice resolution to all of the services at the same time…. and no, I do not work @ Pikchur
http://www.tech...-in-simplicity/
I have been using Posterous for a while and making use of the Twitter integration feature.
the point is, like with bit.ly the shorter name. I saw another service this weekend, with a nice clean design, short name and oAuth integration:
http://img.ly . Let’s see if the character issue can give them a boost, like with url shorteners
Glad to see other services springing up.
The chaps at Pixim, myself included, have been working hard on the site for some time, and still are.
Since this article was posted, we’ve added the ability to email your pictures. Also, images are now automatically geocoded, if the correct metadata is set.
Our API should be ready to roll in the next couple of weeks.
Hope you guys enjoy
Jim,
good way to respond to this article
pix.im also has the five characters advantage btw. But first I was confused, cause there is even another service, which is called pic.im.
fred
As twitter is growing, its apps too. There are number of Twitter services are there for us.
Here is my review on Twitpic
TweetPhoto now plan on crowdsourcing their logo design. I wonder what wonderful and creative inventions they will receive. Check out http://www.chew...or-tweet-photo/
I for one will be watching with anticiaption to see this logo design outcome.
23, http://www.23hq.com has twitter posting support from many clients including short-url support – and the benefit of having my twitter photos together with the rest of my photos on a “real” photo sharing service.
If you have an iPhone, you may want to try Big Cavnas PhotoShare (one of popular photo sharing services on iPhone). Its “Forwarding” (select “Forwarding from the main menu) feature will automatically push the title and link to your photo to your Twitter account. The community of this photo sharing service is very active, and each photo get average five comments.