Lesson 5. Incorporating Media with Twitter
With Twitter’s popularity, developers arrived that wanted more from Twitter. These creative minds put together websites offering to take users out of their textual world and bring them into a more visual one. This began a new trend with tweeting: making the most of 140 characters with the help of images, audio, and video.
TwitPic
In various third-party clients covered in later chapters, you might see the icon of a camera, button, or link labeled TwitPic. TwitPic (http://twitpic.com) is Flickr (http://flickr.com) for Twitter, a photographer’s haven where photos from your hard drive or directly from your mobile phone can be uploaded and shared with your network. Far from the many options ...
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