Twitter provides its users now the option to upload photos via his website. The photos are stored on Photobucket. In the longer term, there is also a gallery feature to be available, but it is unclear yet when exactly.
Users of Twitter via the web interface when entering a tweet has an icon with a camera. Via a press of a button then photos to a message to be added. The images are posted on Photobucket. Twitter has a limit of 3MB per image, while the images will be automatically scaled within the tijdslijnweergave on Twitter.com. Any exif information in an image is removed.
Although there is still no gallery photos are visible, promises Twitter that a few weeks such a feature will be rolling out. Further promises the microbloggingdienst the photos in shielded Twitteraccounts are placed are not visible to other users and also does not pop up in the search results. When the uploadmogelijkheid in the native Twitter clients of the company becomes available, is not yet clear.
The uploadmogelijkheid using the Twitter site, which does not come as a surprise; the social-networking site announced at the beginning of June all with a private photo service. Although Twitter with the new photo capabilities, the attack opens on websites like Flickr, Twitpic and yFrog, the company that images that are posted still will be visible in the timeline.