Twitter is quickly turning into the media sharing platform of choice for many people, despite the fact that it, uh, doesn’t have any actual media sharing functionality. But a variety of services are popping up to fill the need, including countless Twitter-specific sites for sharing images, music, and video.
Today TwitDoc is launching what appears to be the first service for sharing documents over Twitter, bringing support for PDFs, Microsoft Office Documents, and a bunch of other file formats. The site has integrated with popular document sharing hub Scribd to make the process as painless as possible – it only takes around 20 seconds to send a document, and you don’t have to sign up to get started. To use the service, you enter your Twitter user name and password, choose the document or photo you’d like to send out, and add any text you’d like to include alongside the document’s link. Hit upload and you’re done.
It’s a handy tool, but I doubt it will reach the same level of popularity as TwitPic and its ilk – most people simply don’t have as many documents that they’d like to share with all of their Twitter followers. Still, it will definitely be helpful for sharing reports you find interesting, or scanned images that wouldn’t be readable if they were shrunk and compressed (which some image services do).
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I see people still doing this, and I think, “Maybe Darwinism needs a push.”
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Ok. Thats it. I am f***ing done with TC. I cant put up with this insane amount of Twitter crap any more. Never coming back. Good bye.
see you in another post.. or in a reply to this.. ’till later
P.S. Seems like a cool service, but it should have some kind of counter letting you know if you typed too many characters since you don’t know exactly how long the link will be.
You’ll be back tomorrow.
Monsoon Season it’s a good post, he is just passing along information that it seems ALOT of people are into these days, I for one thing twitter is stupid, not far from usenet, but with twitter at least you don’t have to worry about some creep grabbing your IP and doing the nasty with it hahaha
will i get censored oops
Yeah, it’s so boring to see only twitter twitter twitter littered all over techcrunch… u can rename it as twitter-crunch so that we readers can decide whether or not to continue reading your blog.
A common vector for office pornography viewing is “document” sharing sites like scribd and slideshare. Secure web gateway companies with service and cloud models have picked up on this in their updates as well. That’s one of the problems with open access sites where a business or enterprise does not have a unique placeholder. I’d expect several HTTP/1.0 and SSL work around approaches to appear within the next few months. As more companies have a desire to push documents into these repositories there will have to be concessions or swiss cheese in the compliance policy appliances.
Edit: “A common vector for office pornography viewing, or so I’ve heard, ”
Uhm… yeah.
Absolutely nothing advances unless it can show PORN…but you knew that.
twitter as a social net work website. I registered the account for my company but it is not easy to use. In sometimes, it is not good as the google group. of course twitter has its own advantages.
ANOTHER post about twitter?????? SERIOUSLY?
I am starting to get sick of this twitter stuff as well. This is crazy. 6 or 7 frontpage stories dedicated to twitter at any given time? Like there is nothing else going on on the internetz? Seriously guys.
Ohhhh Nazar is ganna be pissed! Jason why didnt you think of this?
Why didn’t I think of this!
pretty smart stuff
I like this service but it takes time to upload. I know with docstoc, there is the automatic sync which is great for uploading. I tweeted earlier today the following: #friendfeed pls feed #docstoc & #scribd – i’m sure they’re hungry! ppl will wanna join da #friendfeed buffet
– the service is grrrrreat! What I meant by this tweet was that by feeding these two documentation services with friendfeed, documents can be uploaded in real time. Moreover, with friendfeed, there is automatic posts to twitter. Therefore, for differentiation from Facebook, Friendfeed and Twitter must consider the integration of these documentation services on their platforms
Going insane over this twitter crap. How about a company that allows file sharing using stone tablets?
If they stop letting Moses handle them…
Ok..I really don’t get the fuss over this one..anyone care to explain why notification over Twitter of a document uploaded to Scribd is innovative?
I’m really annoyed I didn’t think of this first!
Ridiculous, another post about Twitter. Fuck you and bye.
Genuis idea, but will better if that work …… i always get error: #2409 ;((
Checkout messagedance , lets you do the same thing via email (even easier) and its been there for a long time.
I dont get it .. why not just upload to scribd and drop a link on twitter or just have scribd add a twitter button when uploading?
What am i missing here? thnx
Well, one way to look at it would be, that you don’t need another account since you already have the twitter account.
Here is another twitter site I just finished to add to the bunch
http://www.talk...com/TechCrunch/
Holy weasel words!!!
http://en.wikip...iki/Weasel_word
Holy crap guys. ENOUGH WITH THE TWITTER. Don’t you have ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY???
What’s wrong with a simple tweet pointing to a document somewhere on the web (mere file, or googledoc, scribd doc, etc)?
I still remember the early days of scribd, twitDoc is off to a bright future. Would love to interview them for my blog
As HTML in email was an open door for spammers to get creative, so this is for Twitter. Imagine for one minute what type of person will be sharing what type of image. Not only over the Public Timeline but also to a select group of followers.
With the enemies you seem to create. who needs friends?
Enough about twitter (and facebook, and google, and friendfeed) already! Bloody hell I miss the days when TechCrunch was actually interesting and inspirational, when it used to cover new and innovative startups and breakthroughs.
I get that the blog has gained popularity and that maybe this content is in demand among the masses (a bit like reality TV), but it is such a shame for the rest of us tech enthusiasts.
8 posts out of 10 about Twitter
Enough is enough.
Adiós TwitCrunch
STOP making only news about Twitter !
It’s becoming to be annoying..
I could see this as an interesting distribution model for white papers
It seems like a nice way to expose government and company secrets. Someone could just make an anonymous @username and share. It could be me being paranoid. Maybe?
6 out of 20 stories on the front page are Twitter stories. I’m going back to news.com for some more diversity.
Twitter is taking the world by storm. But I think I am left alone. I am not runnning fast. Man I have to catch up wioth the internet. Or else I will land in trouble.
Fact is TechCrunch writers have gotten lazy. They don’t go out and learn about startups anymore, they just report worthlesss shit about Twitter all day. I also miss the old TechCrunch.
This is awesome. Love when more things get integrated with twitter. Eventually you will be able to share everything to twitter, cant wait!
Is that right to tell other website your twitter password? I don’t fell like it.
Like it, though I think http://TWiTRShare.com has much more to offer… docs. audio, image, video sharing.
Looking forward to this happening : )
FileSocial http://filesocial.com/ supports any media.
Thank you Enio for sharing this “new app” for us : )
See my interview with TwitDoc Co-founder/CEO: http://2above.c...oc-on-the-spot/